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.

I like the idea of "Please suggest 10 improvements to my ~/.zshrc" as a prompt John Lindquist https://x.com/johnlindquist/status/1993037322984866168 . Nick Taylor wrote up all the stuff https://www.nickyt.co/blog/how-i-used-claude-code-to-speed-up-my-shell-startup-by-95percent it found for him and got nearly a second back for every fresh terminal opened. Master.dev donates to open source projects through thanks.dev https://thanks.dev/d/gh/frontendmasters/dependencies and Open Collective https://opencollective.com/frontendmasters , as well as donates to non-profits like The Last Mile https://thelastmile.org/ , Annie Canons https://anniecannons.org/ , and Vets Who Code https://vetswhocode.io/ .