Cut an ESP32 display’s wake time from 7s to 0.9s

Applying Anthropic’s “how we made it faster” method; battery life goes from ~1 month to ~10. Packaged as a Claude Code skill.

by Steve Dakh12 Oct 2026

Prompt for your agent

Goal: Make a slow device or program start faster.
Setup: agents used in source: Claude; tools/MCPs stated: ESP32.
Steps:
1. Apply Anthropic’s published speed-up method to your software (here a battery-powered ESP32 display).
2. Measure wake time and battery impact before and after.
3. Turn the method into a Claude Code skill to reuse on any software.
Rules: ask me before anything irreversible (sending, posting, paying, deleting); don’t invent data, results or tools I haven’t given you; tell me what you couldn’t verify.
Based on: Steve Dakh — https://x.com/stevedakh/status/2109702526845014040 (summarised from source; the source has no explicit step list)

Steps are our summary of the source (it has no explicit step list). Includes a “Based on” credit line.

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Agents, models and tools only what the source states

Agents
Claude
Tools
  • ESP32

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