@doodlestein - It sounds so stupid, but one of the biggest productivity

Jeffrey Emanuel
Jeffrey Emanuel@doodlestein
2025-08-15
It sounds so stupid, but one of the biggest productivity hacks when using Claude Code with Opus 4.1 is this: after asking CC to implement a feature or fix a bug or whatever, and after it says it completed everything, you just repeatedly say the following to it over and over until it can't find any more mistakes (which sometimes takes up to 7 or 8 tries!): "Great, now I want you to carefully read over all of the new code you just wrote and other existing code you just modified with "fresh eyes," looking super carefully for any obvious bugs, errors, problems, issues, confusion, etc." Yes, this does take a while, but that's why it's so handy to have a bunch of CC sessions open at once. Then you can just rotate through them, pasting that sentence in again and again. Somehow the "fresh eyes" stuff changes how it perceives what it just wrote in a really helpful way. Weirdly, this trick doesn't seem to work as well with GPT-5 thinking-- it tends to just say "Yup, everything looks right!" Claude is much more prone to second guessing and to making careless mistakes the first time around, but good at catching them given enough chances.

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