Claude Code’s Boris says to delete your system prompts and skills every 6 months
ycombinator · x · 2026-07-26
Boris from Claude Code argues that you should delete your system prompts and skills every 6 months and see what newer models do.
The point is to periodically re-evaluate your scaffolding instead of letting old prompt and skill layers ossify around past model behavior.
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