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hansmayeryesterday at 10:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

Hey Boris from the Claude Code team - could you guys please be so kind so as to stop pushing that narrative about CLAUDE.md, either yourselves or through influencers and GenAI-grifters? The reason being, it is simply not true. A lot of the time the instructions will be ignored. Actually, the term "ignored" is putting the bar too high, because your tool does not intentionally "ignore", not having sentience and knowledge. We experience the effects of the instructions being ignored, because your software is not deterministic, its merely guessing the next token, and sometimes those instructions tacked onto the rest of the context statistically do not match what we as humans expect to see (while its perfectly logical for your machine learning text generator, based on the datasets it was trained on).


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blitz_skullyesterday at 10:13 PM

This seems pretty aggressive considering this is all just personal anecdote.

I update my CLAUDE.md all the time and notice the effects.

Why all the snark?

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simonwyesterday at 10:54 PM

CLAUDE.md is read on session startup.

If you're continually finding that it's being forgotten, maybe you're not starting fresh sessions often enough.

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