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by eisbaw 329 days ago
https://ghuntley.com/stdlib/ applies to claude as well.

AI won't magically know your codebase unless it is pretty vanilla - but then you teach it. If it makes a mistake, teach it by adding a rule.

You have to confine the output space or else you quickly get whatever.

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It isn't about my codebase though, its a standard SQS concept.
One might argue it should know others codebases though. The fact it wouldn’t know function signatures for AWS SDK isn’t hugely promising and reflects my own experiences using LLMs