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    Boris Cherny Suggests Deleting Claude.md Every Six Months

    Recommendation from Claude Code creator Boris Cherny for non-agentic users.

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    Rohan Paul posted a quote from Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic. Cherny advised that people not building agentic products but using Claude Code should every six months delete their claude.md file, delete their skills, and delete their hooks. Then see what the model does, as it might surprise them. The post includes a 24-second video clip showing Boris.

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    @rohanpaul_ai"delete your claude.md file, delete your skills, and delete your hooks. Then see what the model does. It might surprise you." - Claude Code creator at Anthropic Boris Cherny ( @bcherny ) "For people who aren’t building agentic products but are using Claude Code, every 6 months, delete your claude.md file, delete your skills, and delete your hooks. Then see what the model does. It might surprise you. For Opus 5, we strongly recommend trying to delete all of these things because the model may no longer need the extensive instructions that were necessary for previous models." - at Y Combinator Startup School 2026. ---- From "Y Combinator" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
    @IntuitMachineIndeed, maybe start from scratch on every major version release of a model!

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    @rohanpaul_ai"delete your claude.md file, delete your skills, and delete your hooks. Then see what the model does. It might surprise you." - Claude Code creator at Anthropic Boris Cherny ( @bcherny ) "For people who aren’t building agentic products but are using Claude Code, every 6 months, delete your claude.md file, delete your skills, and delete your hooks. Then see what the model does. It might surprise you. For Opus 5, we strongly recommend trying to delete all of these things because the model may no longer need the extensive instructions that were necessary for previous models." - at Y Combinator Startup School 2026. ---- From "Y Combinator" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
    @IntuitMachineIndeed, maybe start from scratch on every major version release of a model!