Comment by callc
This CLAUDE.md dance feels like herding cats. Except we’re herding a really good autocorrect encyclopedic parrot. Sans intelligence
Relating / personifying LLM to an engineer doesn’t work out
Maybe the best though model currently is just “good way to automate trivial text modifications” and “encyclopedic ramblings”
unfair characterization.
think about how this thing is interacting with your codebase. it can read one file at a time. sections of files.
in this UX, is it ergonomic to go hunting for patterns and conventions? if u have to linearly process every single thing u look at every time you do something, how are you supposed to have “peripheral vision”? if you have amnesia, how do you continue to do good work in a codebase given you’re a skilled engineer?
it is different from you. that is OK. it doesn’t mean its stupid. it means it needs different accomodations to perform as well as you do. accomodations IRL exist for a reason, different people work differently and have different strengths and weaknesses. just like humans, you get the most out of them if you meet and work with them from where they’re at.