95% of Devs Use Claude Code Like a Chatbot — The Team That Built It Does the Opposite

95% of devs use Claude Code like a chatbot. The team that built it does the opposite.

The creator of Claude Code just revealed how his team uses it internally.

Spoiler: it's not magic. It's discipline.

Here are the 10 habits I'm adopting immediately:

1. Parallelism > Speed Multiple Claude sessions in parallel via Git worktrees. THE biggest unlock.

2. Plan Mode First For complex tasks: detailed plan, then review by a 2nd session.

3. Evolving CLAUDE.md After each correction → update. Claude improves on YOUR project.

4. Custom Skills You do something >1x/day? Skill it. Capitalize.

5. Raw Bug Fixing Logs + "fix it". No micro-management.

6. Challenging Prompts "Prove to me this works" > "Does this work?"

7. Subagents Heavy operations delegated. Main context stays clean.

8. Data via CLI Claude queries your DB and analyzes. Analytics without leaving the terminal.

9. Learning Mode ASCII diagrams, explanations, presentations. Built-in private tutor.

The real lesson?

It's not the hidden features that make the difference. It's treating Claude like a team you supervise, not a chat you babysit.