Writing "Write clean code" in CLAUDE.md changes nothing. During the process of building 10 personal...
Writing "Write clean code" in CLAUDE.md changes nothing.
During the process of building 10 personal apps in three months, I rewrote CLAUDE.md many times.
Since it became clear what worked and what didn't, I will outline that distinction.
What Doesn't Work
Giving instructions with adjectives
TL;DR — CLAUDE.md is powerful, but most people fill it with vague preferences that Claude...
A great CLAUDE.md is not the longest one. It is the one where every line changes what Claude does....
Most CLAUDE.md files fail because they don't actually constrain Claude's behavior. They become too...
My first CLAUDE.md for a client project ran 400 lines: architecture diagrams, the full MVVM-vs-TCA...
Create a concise CLAUDE.md for Claude Code with testable rules, conflict boundaries, safe secret handling, and a reversible check…
Your CLAUDE.md only grows. Every incident adds a rule, every preference becomes a paragraph, and six...
