Thursday, January 8, 2026
Claude Code Updates & Usage
People are discussing new features and updates to Claude Code, including improvements to efficiency, security, and debugging, as well as best practices for development, such as test-driven development and code cleanup.
Sentry skills are now available in Claude Code Templates (Save this post and run it before your next commit) Just tried deslop - it removes AI-generated code slop from your branch. It catches things like excessive comments, defensive checks, type casts to any, and inline
Here's why to ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS use TDD when developing with Claude Code: it finds bugs out as it writes the code, rather than you finding them on production after code is deployed. This is exactly what prevents you from shipping AI slop.
Claude Code CLI 2.1.1 brings major updates: auto skill hot-reload, forked sub-agent support, language settings, improved Shift+Enter in terminals, gitignore respect, and security fixes for sensitive data. Adds Vim motions, slash commands like /plan and /teleport, wildcard bash