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paxystoday at 4:16 PM1 replyview on HN

I have been enforcing this myself through AGENTS files and other explicit instructions. What’s crazy is that none of the existing coding harnesses include such instructions by default. Two lines in Claude Code and Codex and the entire world would be writing better, more efficient code. Makes me believe in the conspiracy that these companies want more verbose code and longer files because it directly results in higher token usage.


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Ginger-Picklestoday at 4:45 PM

Pray do share those two lines