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The most important skill for working with Claude Code is developing a mental model of Claude's capabilities and behavior.
Thariq Shihipar · Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic · 29 Sep 2026
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“like oh prompting doesn't matter it's just like i can just say a sentence and claude will do it and i think prompting is really this like this it's like public speaking you know like or writing or something and for a specific audience and that audience is claude and you need to like build a mental model of claude and how it thinks and how it works right and so that's like the most important skill in working with claude code is like having this mental model right of claude”15:48Report a misattribution
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