Full video: Boris Cherny's YC Startup School talk on pruning Claude Code configs
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-05
rohanpaulai followed up with the full video of the earlier quote: Boris Cherny's talk at Y Combinator Startup School 2026, on the official Y Combinator YouTube channel, containing his full advice to periodically delete your claude.md, skills, and hooks and see how the model performs without them.
Related event: Claude Code founder advises deleting claude.md every six months(2 posts)→
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