How to Turn Claude Code into an Operating System with Carl Vellotti

Today’s episode Claude Code just hit $2.5 billion in annualized revenue in 9 months. It is the fastest B2B software product ramp in history. So why are most people still using it like a chatbot? This is how most people use Claude Code. Type a prompt and get output. The context fills up. It compacts. You lose everything. You start over. The top users flipped it. They built skills that interview through a framework before building anything. They use sub-agents that preserve context. They have operating systems where every file, every person, every project has a home. That shift is what today’s episode is about. I sat down with Carl Vellotti for the third time. His first episode was the beginner course. His second episode was the advanced masterclass. Together they crossed over a million views across platforms. Today is the operating system layer. If you are already an 80 out of 100 on Claude Code, this episode will bring you to a 95 out of 100. This episode covers context management, creating sub-agents to manage your context for you, auto-triggering skills with hooks, trustworthy data analysis with Jupyter notebooks, and building an operating system around it all. If you are living in Claude Code 8 to 10 hours a day and want to stop fighting the tool, this is the one episode to watch. ---- Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Brought to you by: * Bolt: Ship AI-powered products 10x faster * Amplitude: The market-leader in product analytics * Pendo: The #1 software experience management platform * NayaOne: Airgapped cloud-agnostic sandbox * Product Faculty: Get $550 off their #1 AI PM Certification with my link ---- If you want access to my AI tool stack - Dovetail, Arize, Linear, Descript, Reforge Build, DeepSky, Relay.app, Magic Patterns, Speechify, and Mobbin - grab Aakash’s bundle. I’m putting on a free webinar on Behavioral and AI PM interviews. Join me. ---- Key Takeaways: 1. Context management is the real skill - A single web search eats 10% of your context. Run /context to see what is consuming it. System prompt and MCPs take 10-16% before you type one message. 2. Sub-agents save 20x context - Delegate research to a sub-agent. Same task costs 0.5% instead of 10%. Your main session only gets the summary. 3. Replace MCPs with CLIs - MCPs eat context by existing. CLIs have zero overhead. GitHub CLI, Vercel CLI, Google Workspace CLI are all dramatically more efficient. 4. Powerful skills need zero code - Anthropic's front-end design plugin is just a good prompt. No APIs or tooling. Just rules that tell Claude "do not look like AI." 5. Give Claude self-checking tools - The make slides skill uses Puppeteer to screenshot output, measure overflow, and fix issues before you see them. 6. Repeat prompts for better quality - A Google paper showed pasting a prompt twice helps. Tell Claude to double-check against skill instructions after the first pass. 7. Use hooks to auto-invoke skills - A user_prompt_submit hook matches your words against skill keywords instantly. Zero context cost. 8. Jupyter notebooks solve data trust - Every analysis shows exact code, inputs, and outputs. Traceable and reproducible. 9. Build an operating system - Knowledge folder for people context. Projects folder for task isolation. Tools folder for scripts. CLAUDE.md for identity. 10. The people folder compounds - Connect meeting transcription. After every meeting, update each person's dossier. Every prompt gets more specific over time. ---- Related content Podcasts: * Claude Code Masterclass with Carl Vellotti (Ep 2) * Claude Code PM OS with Dave Killeen * OpenClaw Setup Guide with Naman Pandey Newsletters: * The ultimate guide to context engineering * How to use Claude Code like a pro * Claude Cowork and Code setup guide PS. Please subscribe on YouTube and follow on Apple & Spotify. It helps! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe

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