The Mother-In-Law Method: How to Get the Best Code Reviews from Claude Most developers submit code to Claude the same way they’d throw it at a distracted coworker: paste, prompt, hope. The result is feedback that sounds authoritative but misses the actual point. The Mother-In-Law Method is a structured prompting technique that forces you to supply the context Claude needs to give genuinely useful, senior-engineer-quality reviews. It takes three minutes. It changes everything. ...