You're Prompting Claude Wrong. Use this Stanford Method Instead

Try Fish Audio's New S2.1 Pro's API for Free Today - https://fish.audio/?fpr=austin79 In this video I break down this Stanford method (Graph Engineering) that changed how I look and run Claude Code. Inspired from a course by Andrew Ng, a Stanford adjunct professor, the lessons here got me to stop prompting and start graph engineering. Every AI automation, skill, and workflow you've already built is a graph, and most of them are shaped in a non-optimal structure, which is why they run slow, break easily, and burn tokens. In this video, I cover the Wait Test, the four shapes that actually matter (chain, diamond, branch, loop), and exactly where each one fails so you don't learn it the expensive way. By the end you'll know how to run tasks in parallel instead of one after the other, route one skill in five directions instead of building five skills, and set up AI agents that verify their own output before you ever look at it. Timestamps: (0:00) - Stop Prompting Claude. Use this Stanford Method Instead. (0:37) - Layer 1: Graph Engineering Basics (4:56) - Layer 2: The Types of Graphs (5:22) - The Diamond (fan-out and multi-thread) (6:04) - The Branch (skill routing) (7:03) - The Loop (validate the output) (8:14) - The 4 Graphs That Matter (9:27) - Layer 3: What To Avoid (9:47) - Chain Graphs: Slow and Brittle (10:06) - Diamond Graphs: False Independence and Silent Failures (10:53) - Branch Graphs: Over-Engineering (11:21) - Loop Graphs: Infinite Loops (11:52) - The One Skill That Changed My Life What to watch next ⤵️ Loop Engineering, the full deep dive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAS4ojuhbW4 Karpathy's method for Claude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zZy1QTvokM 17 tricks to build 10x faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzHB2mPHb2g Andrew Ng course I reference on open: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSySS5TFuLY -------- FOR INDIVIDUALS: Free 5-day AI playbook (what I used to build a $25M+ startup): https://austinsnewsletter.com/grph Use BuildPartner to build 10x faster with Claude Code (try free): https://buildpartner.ai/grph FOR BUSINESSES, Ways to work with me: Apply for my Executive AI Coaching Program: https://www.theincubator.xyz/apply/grph Want to build a SaaS product without hiring a CTO? https://www.theincubator.xyz/eng/grph -------- If you're new here, I'm Austin Marchese. How I got here... 16: First business (SAT Math Tutor) 22: Graduated Stevens Tech, 4.0, College Basketball, software engineering job at JPM 23: Bitcoin ATM company + building algorithms for a professional gambler (fun story) 24: Started creating content, grew 100k+ followers, built first agency, The Incubator 25: Scaled agency to 15+ team members, $75K/M while working full time 26: Quit my job, joined a startup called IYK 27: Became COO of a $25M+ tech startup, worked with Ed Sheeran, Chance the Rapper and more 28: Built a $20M+ real estate portfolio in the background 29: Transitioned from IYK, re-launched The Incubator, grew it to a 6-figure biz in 30 days. Now building BuildPartner.ai 29: Became one of the biggest Claude Youtubers, with multiple videos over 500,000 views 30: Completed an Ironman and just getting started... To everyone who's spending time learning and putting the work in, cheers. Anyone can make comments from the sidelines but not everyone can build...