5 Claude Code skills I use every single day (Senior Engineer Tips)
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Claude Code is powerful, but most developers barely use 10% of it.
The difference is Skills.
Skills turn Claude Code from a generic AI coding assistant into a workflow-aware engineering tool that can design, test, review, and improve code with much better context.
In this video, I break down 5 Claude Code Skills that can seriously improve how you build software, review code, design interfaces, write tests, and automate repeated engineering workflows.
Here’s what I cover 👇
✅ What Claude Code Skills are and how they upgrade your AI coding workflow
✅ How to make Claude generate cleaner, less generic front-end designs
✅ How to make Claude understand your codebase before changing anything
✅ How to use TDD so Claude writes tests before implementation
✅ How to review PRs for security, bugs, and maintainability issues
✅ How to create custom Skills for workflows you repeat again and again
📖 Timestamp
0:00 Intro
1:08 What are Claude Code Skills?
2:04 Skill 1
4:28 Skill 2
6:00 Skill 3
7:00 Skill 4
8:42 Skill 5
9:46 Final Thoughts
about me
I’m Maddy, a senior software engineer (prev. at Google), with prior internships at Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, IBM, and Amazon. Sharing my journey here - thanks for watching 🤍
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