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by ramon156 78 days ago
LinkedIn loves these, even if they're broken.

But they had already lost me at all the links, and the fact there's not a red wire through the entire article.

The first thing my eyes skimmed was:

> CLAUDE.md: Claude’s instruction manual

> This is the most important file in the entire system. When you start a Claude Code session, the first thing it reads is CLAUDE.md. It loads it straight into the system prompt and keeps it in mind for the entire conversation.

No it's not. Claude does not read this until it is relevant. And if it does, it's not SOT. So no, it's argumentatively not the most important file.
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SV_BubbleTime 78 days ago
Maybe. But I kind of view LinkedIn as a social network for people who only by the grace of a couple better decisions are talking about real business and not multilevel marketing schemes… but otherwise use the same themes and terminologies.

Like mostly people who have confused luck and success, or business acumen for religion.

So I wouldn’t use LinkedIn as a positive data point of what’s hot.

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frotaur 78 days ago
Are you certain? My understanding was that this is automatically injected in the context, and in my experience that's how it worked. I never see 'ReadFile(claude.md)', and yet claude is aware of some conventions I put in there.
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hbarka 78 days ago
They’re mistaken. CLAUDE.md is always loaded into context, along with system prompts and memory files.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory

“CLAUDE.md files are loaded into the context window at the start of every session”

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