On maximizing Claude Code.

Early on, I spent time building reusable workflows/patterns.

Tedious to build, but this had a wild compounding effect as models and agent harnesses improved.

I think these effects will continue to compound exponentially.

No point in starting fresh every time you start a new project/feature.

Invest time building subagents, skills, commands, planning, MCP tools, context engineering patterns,...

Believe me when I tell you that they make a huge difference in how effective and productive you can be with Claude Code.

The best part is that all these workflows are transferable to other agents like Codex.

These days, I am mostly focusing on orchestration and automating code review. The workflows help a lot already, but I sometimes feel constrained by the current tools and environment. I like sandboxes and think they are going to enable a lot of the next wave of functionalities with these coding agents. I also think we are just touching the surface of context engineering and orchestrating agents. Git worktrees are great, but I am sure we can do better for scaling the work with coding agents.

It's exciting to see all the progress on long-context understanding and multimodality. Both are critical to unlock even more insane capabilities with these coding agents. The former is important to enable uninterrupted longer sessions, and the latter unlocks all sorts of visual cues and grounding that will help to build more creative and unique experiences.

Below is a small snapshot of a few skills I have optimized and regularly use in Claude Code. All of these leverage different models and capabilities, which will only improve as capabilities are extended and models get better.

Excited for 2026 and hope to keep sharing more of my journey and keep learning from this awesome community.

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For those who are interested, I will be showcasing some of these skills in our upcoming live cohort and how to build and use them more optimally inside of Claude Code: dair-ai.thinkific.com