Projects that have worked with coding agents for a while accumulate instruction files the way basements accumulate boxes...

Projects that have worked with coding agents for a while accumulate instruction files the way basements accumulate boxes: a CLAUDE.md in the root, one in the home directory, rules per subfolder, plus notes the agent left for itself. When two rules in such a file contradict each other, the model picks one - silently, without a warning, without any hint that the other one just stopped having an effect.https://www.tobiasreithmeier.de/en/blog/agent-environment-grown-projects#llm #aiagents #claude

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