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How I Used Claude Code to Speed Up My Shell Startup by 95%

Nick Taylor documented using Claude Code to cut his shell startup time by 95%, recovering nearly a second on every fresh terminal he opens, after prompting the tool to suggest 10 improvements to his ~/.zshrc. The approach was surfaced by John Lindquist, who proposed the "Please suggest 10 improvements to my ~/.zshrc" prompt.

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How I Used Claude Code to Speed Up My Shell Startup by 95%
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I like the idea of "Please suggest 10 improvements to my ~/.zshrc" as a prompt (John Lindquist). Nick Taylor wrote up all the stuff it found for him and got nearly a second back for every fresh terminal opened.

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