My 2025 Claude Code Mantra: Simplify
2025 Claude Code secret: subtract, don’t add. Trim CLAUDE.md, drop MCP, automate with Skills, watch output soar
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2025 has come to an end.
This year, I pushed Claude Code to its limits, consuming billions of tokens and refactoring tens of thousands of lines of code.
If I had to summarize one core principle, it’s just three words:
Let it go.
While everyone else was adding to AI—frantically piling on prompts, cramming in documentation, and loading plugins—I chose to subtract.
Because I discovered that using Claude Code well isn’t about how much you give the AI. It’s about how much you refuse to give it.
Part 1: Break
CLAUDE.md is the soul of a project, but 99% of people turn it into a garbage dump.
The most absurd example I’ve seen had over 3,000 words, stacking various fancy, mystical prompts, then dumping in API documentation, framework explanations, and business details all at once.
