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When Coding Agent Guides Help, Hurt, or Do Nothing

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Should I delete my CLAUDE.md? Before doing that, I wanted to know which parts an agent still needs. So I ran 438 tests: with guides, without guides, and with notes left in a folder that nobody mentioned. The question is in the air. When Opus 5 shipped, Anthropic removed over 80% of Claude Code's sy…

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  1. 2026-10-21 17:59 · DEV Community — AI
    When Coding Agent Guides Help, Hurt, or Do Nothing

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