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

About this episode

This episode discusses how to effectively use Claude Code by building an operating system around it to enhance productivity.

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…

People in this episode

Host: Aakash Gupta

Guest: Carl Vellotti

Topics covered

• Claude Code
• operating systems
• context management
• sub-agents
• data analysis
• productivity

Keywords

• Claude Code
• operating system
• context management
• sub-agents
• data analysis
• Jupyter notebooks
• productivity

Sponsors

Bolt, Amplitude

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Claude Code, Pendo

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