Get Started With Claude Code: 5 Essential Features
Channel: Tiago Forte
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[0:00] It's been over 3 years since the release
[0:02] of ChatGPT and I still see most people
[0:05] using AI like a search engine. They type
[0:08] a question, they get an answer. They say
[0:10] something back, it responds.
[0:13] But there's a new kind of AI tool called
[0:15] an agent harness that really [music]
[0:17] changes what is possible in your work
[0:19] with AI. It can take actions on your
[0:22] computer. It can follow a multi-step
[0:24] task. [music] It can run commands. It
[0:27] can edit and move around files. But
[0:29] first, there's one concept you must
[0:32] understand. The context window [music]
[0:35] is the single most important resource
[0:38] that you have to manage. Think of it
[0:40] like a desk. When your desk is a
[0:42] gigantic mess with piles of things all
[0:44] over the place, you spend half your time
[0:47] just rummaging through the piles. Most
[0:49] [music] of the best practices that I'll
[0:50] talk about in this video have to do with
[0:53] managing this one constraint.
[0:57] Let's go ahead and open up Claude Code
[0:59] in the Mac desktop app. This is a
[1:01] completely clean Pro account which costs
[1:04] $20 a month and I've turned off all the
[1:06] memory, all the user instructions,
[1:09] preferences, connectors, everything. So,
[1:11] what you see here is exactly what you
[1:14] will see with a brand new Claude Pro
[1:16] account.
[1:18] This is something that took me a while
[1:19] to realize
[1:21] is Claude Code has access to its own
[1:24] documentation. Anthropic, the company
[1:26] that makes Claude, has actually done a
[1:28] lot of work to make all of its latest
[1:31] documentation available on the web in a
[1:34] format specifically designed for LLM
[1:37] consumption, which means it's become
[1:39] mu