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Comment by rurban

5 hours ago

No, we still need CLAUDE.md to override bad system prompt goals. The system prompt goes for the simple fast solution, no error handling, no hardening, no abstractions, but overly verbose comments. Vast amount of people need to override this AI slop.

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dboreham  5 hours ago

Never once had to do that, fwiw.

  • rurban  4 hours ago

    You'll get better code if you do

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