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formerly_provenyesterday at 9:56 PM0 repliesview on HN

There's a pattern where people create AI-specific infrastructure for coding agents which is essentially instantly obsolete because it's pointless. Stuff like most MCPs (instead of just using a CLI), agent-specific files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.MD, github-instructions.NET etc.) etc.

> You should have a good, concise introduction to the codebase that allows anyone to write and test a simple patch in under 15 minutes.

Yeah, that's the CONTRIBUTING file.