Parallel Git Worktrees: A Claude Team Productivity Hack

Someone from the Claude Code team shared that spinning up multiple git worktrees is their biggest productivity hack.

Here’s the setup:

Run 3-5 separate worktrees, each with its own Claude session running in parallel. People on the team create shell aliases to jump between them instantly:

alias zb='cd ~/worktree-b'
alias zc='cd ~/worktree-c'

Why it works:

One worktree handles the main feature while another debugs a flaky test and a third explores a refactor. No more context switching or waiting for Claude to finish one task before starting another.

The team says this beats any other optimization they’ve tried. Instead of queuing work serially, everything runs at once - kind of like having multiple developers working simultaneously, except they all have perfect knowledge of your codebase.