For daily Claude users
8 concepts · ~38 minGetting more out of Claude
Eight concepts, in the right order. Each one builds on the last. By the end you'll understand how Claude actually works — and you'll get noticeably better results from it.
The foundation
Large Language Model
What Claude actually is under the hood — and why that changes how you interact with it.
5 min
How Claude's memory works
Context Window
The whiteboard metaphor: why Claude remembers everything in a conversation but nothing between them.
5 min
The unit of everything
Token
What tokens are, why they matter for cost, and how to think about Claude's limits in practical terms.
4 min
How to brief Claude
System Prompt
The most important concept for anyone building with Claude — how to shape its behavior before the conversation starts.
4 min
Why Claude behaves the way it does
Constitutional AI
The training method that gave Claude values instead of rules — and why that makes it more useful, not less.
5 min
When to trust the output
Hallucination
Why Claude sometimes gets confident things wrong — and how to design around it rather than be caught off guard.
5 min
Giving Claude your knowledge
RAG
How to connect Claude to your own documents, data, and information — so answers are grounded in your reality.
5 min
When Claude does the work
AI Agent
The shift from Claude answering questions to Claude completing tasks — what changes and what to watch for.
5 min
After this path
Go deeper on what matters to you
The glossary has every term. The articles go deeper on the ones that matter most.