Study Finds AI Coding Instruction Files Grow 226%, Dubbing It 'Catastrophic Remembering'

An arXiv study of 1,867 GitHub repositories found that AI coding instruction files like CLAUDE.md grow by an average of 226%, with older instructions becoming hard to delete—a phenomenon the authors call 'catastrophic remembering'—and propose comment-based solutions.

2026-09-07 ~ 2026-09-07 · 2 related posts

• AI coding instruction files grow 226% on average; study proposes 'catastrophic remembering' and comments as fix — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-09-07

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