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Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

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Re: Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

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Post by georgeburdell »

jameshart wrote: post #22
exitb wrote: post #17

I’m seeing this more and more, where people build this artificial wall you supposedly need to climb to try agentic coding. That’s not the right way to start at all. You should start with a fresh .claude, empty AGENTS.md, zero skills and MCP and learn to operate the thing first.

Yes, but as soon as you start checking in and sharing access to a project with other developers these things become shared. Working out how to work on code on your own with agentic support is one thing. Working out how to work on it as a team where each developer is employing agentic tools is a whole different ballgame.

In my own group, agentic coding made sharing and collaboration go out the window because Claude will happily duplicate a bunch of code in a custom framework

Re: Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

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Post by sunir »

phyzix5761 wrote: post #28

Is there a completely free coding assistant agent that doesn't require you to give a credit card to use it? I recently tried IntelliJ for Kotlin development and it wanted me to give a credit card for a 30 day trial. I just want something that scans my repo and I tell it the changes I want and it does it. If possible, it would also run the existing tests to make sure its changes don't break anything.

Qwen code has a free tier

Opencoder is bring your own model.

You get what you pay for so good luck.

Re: Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

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Post by spunker540 »

GaggiX wrote: post #11
push0ret wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't come around any AI generated imagery in documents / slides that adds any value. It's more the opposite, they stand out like a sore thumb and often even reduce usability since text cannot be copied. Oh and don't get me started on leadership adding random AI generated images to their emails just to show that they use AI.

It may be survivorship bias, you only notice the AI ones that are bad.

Yeah there are almost certainly times when it is gen ai and you just didn’t notice.

Re: Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

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Post by sunir »

TheRoque wrote: post #5

So that's what "software engineering" has become nowadays ? Some cargo cult basically. Seriously all of this gives red flag. No statements here are provable. It's just like langhchain that was praised and then everyone realized it's absolute dog water. Just like MCP too. The job in 2026 is really sad.

When was it not a cargo cult?

Re: Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

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Post by embedding-shape »

freedomben wrote: post #39
exitb wrote: post #17

I’m seeing this more and more, where people build this artificial wall you supposedly need to climb to try agentic coding. That’s not the right way to start at all. You should start with a fresh .claude, empty AGENTS.md, zero skills and MCP and learn to operate the thing first.

I totally agree with you that this not the right way to start . But, in my experience, the more you use the tool the more of a "feel" you get for it, and knowing how all these different pieces work and line up can be quite useful (though certainly not mandatory). It's been immensely frustrating to me how difficult it is to find all this info with all the low-quality junk that is out there on the internet.

> all the low-quality junk that is out there on the internet.

Isn't this article just another one in that same drawer?

> What actually belongs in CLAUDE.md - Write: - Import conventions, naming patterns, error handling styles

Then just a few lines below:

> Don’t write: - Anything that belongs in a linter or formatter config

The article overall seems filled with internal inconsistencies, so I'm not sure this article is adding much beyond "This is what an LLM generated after I put the article title with some edits".

Re: Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

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Post by bhaak »

phyzix5761 wrote: post #28

Is there a completely free coding assistant agent that doesn't require you to give a credit card to use it? I recently tried IntelliJ for Kotlin development and it wanted me to give a credit card for a 30 day trial. I just want something that scans my repo and I tell it the changes I want and it does it. If possible, it would also run the existing tests to make sure its changes don't break anything.

Gemini Code Assist has a free tier.

You log in with your Goggle account.

Re: Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

freedomben wrote: post #33
bagrow wrote: post #2

Here's a question that I hope is not too off-topic. Do people find the nano-banana cartoon infographics to be helpful, or distracting? Personally, I'm starting to tire seeing all the little cartoon people and the faux-hand-drawn images. Wouldn't Tufte call this chartjunk?

Most of the time I find them distracting, and sometimes a huge negative on the article. In this particular article though, they're well done and relevant, and I think they add quite a bit. It's a highly personal opinion kind of thing though for sure.

The first one is actually quite good.

Some of the others, I don’t feel like added value, but I agree that these are some of the best of a practice that I agreed does not add a ton of value typically

Re: Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

elcapitan wrote: post #37
bagrow wrote: post #2

Here's a question that I hope is not too off-topic. Do people find the nano-banana cartoon infographics to be helpful, or distracting? Personally, I'm starting to tire seeing all the little cartoon people and the faux-hand-drawn images. Wouldn't Tufte call this chartjunk?

When I see AI images, I skip them, and most likely, the entire article. They're a better warning sign than the ones hidden in the text.

Yeah, I’ve been considering this. They’re going to start removing em dashes, which currently is a surefire way to detect AI text.

Let’s say lose those and using emojis as bullet points. It’s going to be a lot harder to detect.

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