alt Hacker News> I add to my team’s CLAUDE.md multiple times a week.
This concerns me because fighting tooling is not a positive thing. It’s very negative and indicates how immature everything is.
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bcherny • yesterday at 6:28 PM
You might be misunderstanding what a CLAUDE.md is. It’s not about fighting the model, rather it’s giving the model a shortcut to get the context it needs to do its work. You don’t have to have one. Ours is 100% written by Claude itself.
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The Claude MD is like the documentation you hand to a new engineer on your team that explains details about your code that they wouldn't otherwise know. It's not bad to need one.