alt Hacker NewsI’m sure I’m just working like a caveman, but I simply highlight the relevant code, add it to the chat, and talk to these tools as if they were my colleagues and I’m getting pretty good results.
About 12 to 6 months ago this was not the case (with or without .md files), I was getting mainly subpar result, so I’m assuming that the models have improved a lot.
Basically, I found that they not make that much of a difference, the model is either good enough or not…
I know (or at least I suppose) that these markdown files could bring some marginal improvements, but at this point, I don’t really care.
I assume this is an unpopular take because I see so many people treat these files as if they were black magic or silver bullet that 100x their already 1000x productivity.
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Matches my experience also. Bothered only once to setup a proper CLAUDE.md file, and now never do it. Simply refering to the context properly for surgical recommendations and edit works relatively well.
It feels a lot like bikeshedding to me, maybe I’m wrong
How about a list of existing database tables/columns so you don't need to repeat it each time?
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> I simply highlight the relevant code, add it to the chat, and talk to these tools
Different use case. I assume the discussion is about having the agent implement whole features or research and fix bugs without much guidance.