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by thegeomaster 379 days ago
This is kinda frustrating to read. The style is very busy, and it lacks a clear structure. It's basically an information dump without any acknowledgment of what's important or not. Big-O notation is provided for a lot of operations where you wouldn't really care about Big-O (in a system where calls to an LLM dominate, this is most operations). Big picture story about how Claude Code actually works, as in what happens when I type in a prompt (which I'm very much interested, given how much I use it) is lacking. Some diagrams are so nonsensical they become funny. Look at this: https://southbridge-research.notion.site/Prompt-Engineering-... In general, the prompt engineering page, which deserves maybe the most detailed treatment, is just a dump of prompts and LLM bullet point filler.

I don't want to be overly negative, but I think it's only fair given the author hasn't graced us with their own thoughts, instead offloading the actual writing to an LLM.