Claude Code Casual, Pro, Elite: The Three Working Personas of Claude Code Mastery
Author(s): Rick Hightower Originally published on Towards AI. Claude Code Personas Part 16: A short, honest map of how much Claude Code setup your work actually needs, so you stop measuring yourself against a maximalist ideal you may never require. In this …
Claude Code Platforms: Stop Picking a Favorite: Where to Actually Run Claude Code
Author(s): Rick Hightower Originally published on Towards AI. Claude Code Part 11 Platforms: CLI, IDE, Desktop, or web. Each surface runs the same engine, and the engineers who get the most out of Claude Code switch between them mid-task without thinking twice. …
Claude Code Permissions: You Are Keyboard-Mashing ‘y’. Here Is How to Stop.
Author(s): Rick Hightower Originally published on Towards AI. Claude Code 5: Auto mode is the best feature of 2026 so far. Permission modes let you calibrate exactly how much an AI agent can do without asking you first. Master them, and “approve, …
Claude Code Agent Teams and Worktrees: One Claude Is Not Enough: Running Parallel Sessions Without Collisions
Author(s): Rick Hightower Originally published on Towards AI. Claude Code Agent Teams Part 15: How git worktrees and agent teams let you scale Claude Code beyond a single terminal, without overwrites, lost edits, or duplicated work In this article: A single Claude …
Claude Code Plugins: Your Claude Code Setup Is Trapped in One Repo. Plugins Set It Free.
Author(s): Rick Hightower Originally published on Towards AI. Claude Code Plugins 14: Plugins are how to package the skills, subagents, hooks, and MCP servers you have already built into a Claude Code plugin your whole team installs in a single command. You …
Claude Code Memory: Why You Keep Explaining the Same Thing to Claude (and the Five Layers That Fix It)
Author(s): Rick Hightower Originally published on Towards AI. Part 7: The five layers of Claude Code memory that stop your AI from repeating its mistakes, and how to route each fact to the right one. You tell Claude Code that your project …
Claude Code Subagents: The Claude Code Feature You Skip Every Day (And Why It Quietly Wrecks Your Sessions)
Author(s): Rick Hightower Originally published on Towards AI. Part 6 Subagents: Subagents are the Claude Code feature most engineers never touch, and skipping them is why long sessions slowly fall apart. Your best Claude Code session quietly rots all afternoon, and you …
Claude Code: Spec-Driven Development — Why Your AI Coding Sessions Fall Apart at Hour Three
Author(s): Rick Hightower Originally published on Towards AI. Part 4: Stop coding blind: the spec-driven workflow built-in that turns Claude Code from a function writer into a feature builder. Summary: In this article, working engineers love Claude Code for writing functions and …
The Ten-Minute Ritual That Decides Whether Claude Code Actually Helps You
Author(s): Rick Hightower Originally published on Towards AI. Part 3: Claude Code, Day-to-Day: Your AI agent is not underpowered. Your day is unstructured. That is fixable in ten minutes. Your AI agent is not underpowered. Your day is unstructured. The ten-minute daily …
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