Comment by asdev
20 hours ago
you really don't need any of this crap. you just need Claude Code and CLAUDE.MD in directories where you need to direct it. complicated AI set ups are mid curve
20 hours ago
you really don't need any of this crap. you just need Claude Code and CLAUDE.MD in directories where you need to direct it. complicated AI set ups are mid curve
I refuse to learn all the complicated configuration because none of it will matter when they drop the next model.
Things that need special settings now won’t in the future and vice versa.
It’s not worth investing a bunch of time into learning features and prompting tricks that will be obsoleted soon
I wish that were true. Models don't feel like they've really had massive leaps.
They do get better, but not enough to change any of the configuration I have.
But you are correct, there is a real possibility that the time invested with be obsolete at some point.
For sure the work towards MCPs are basically obsolete via skills. These things happen.
It doesn’t require any major improvement to the underlying model. As long they tinker with system prompts and builtin tools/settings, the coding agent will evolve in unpredictable ways out of my control
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i don't understand this mcp/skill distinction? one of the mcps i use indexes the runtime dependency of code modules so that claude can refactor without just blindly grepping.
how would that be a "skill"? just wrap the mcp in a cli?
fwiw this may be a skill issue, pun intended, but i can't seem to get claude to trigger skills, whereas it reaches for mcps more... i wonder if im missing something. I'm plenty productive in claude though.
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It seems to mostly ignore Claude.md
It’s told to only use it if relevant because most people write bad ones. Someone should write a tool to assess CLAUDE.md quality.
If you can test how often it is being used by having a line in there saying something like “You must start every non-code response with ‘Woohoo!’”
It does, Claude.md is the least effective way to communicate to it.
It's always interesting reading other people's approaches, because I just find them all so very different than my experience.
I need Agents, and Skills to perform well.