Comment by hibikir
10 hours ago
Even if there is first principles traversal of some parts of the codebase, there are other bits that definitely not change, and where exploring every time is a massive waste of tokens. My arguments with claude often have to do with making it explore a lot less, because I know better, and faster, than its slow, expensive navigation of things that basically never change. And it just goes into the same kind of rabbit holes every time.
I still think the best process with Claude Code is: 1) ask it to gather context that you know is relevant 2) only then ask it to do whatever you want it to do. If you do it the other way around, it will over research, over think and generally make more of a mess.