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by whstl 6 days ago
I believe it’s desirable as a default, but not when the prompting/steering asks not to.

> It's important to do a first pass cleaning up and preparing code before unleashing agents onto it

That’s a good idea in general, but the whole point of the rewrite was that Fable wasn’t capable enough of fixing the old codebase which we were using as a reference.

Another problem I had in another project was with having “sample” code purely written for testing being used as the architectural guidance, despite comments and repeated memories asking not to.

In the end, by the way, the solution was to simply blocking access to specific files, in the Claude settings.json.

But still Claude tried to cheat by running ‘cat file.cpp` a few times, so…

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That's really interesting. I'll be more careful with RAG in the future then, thanks for the account