Claude Clues

Claude Clue #39: Put Haiku at the Front Desk

Over two weeks in September, my agent made 893 model calls to the cheapest Anthropic model.

Claude Clue #38: Read the Manual Before the Model

Some people read the manual first. Some people start assembling and find out.

Claude Clue #37: Let Another Claude Keep Score

Claude is very good at telling you it's done. Now another Claude gets a say.

Claude Clue #36: Give Your Claudes a Bulletin Board

Your Claude just renamed an interface. Your coworker's Claude has no idea.

Claude Clue #35: Put Fable in the Corner Office

Anthropic's biggest model is also the easiest one to waste.

Claude Clue #34: Give Your Orchestrator Two Jobs

Put a heavy-thinking model at the top and give it exactly two jobs: hand out assignments and verify that each one came back complete.

Claude Clue #33: Let Your AI Phone a Smarter Friend

Remember "Phone a Friend" in Who Wants to be a Millionaire? It's like that, but with lower stakes.

Claude Clue #32: Cowork vs Claude Code

A coworker recently asked: should I use Claude Cowork or Claude Code for non-coding work?

Claude Clue #31: Checkpoints Are Your Undo Button

Claude Code has a feature called checkpoints that can save your bacon.

Claude Clue #30: Let Claude Grade Its Own Homework

Ask Claude to grade how well it's been helping you with the /insights command.