Don't Let Documentation Drag Down Agent Reasoning
eliaff · reddit · 2026-07-10
In a project almost entirely developed by an agent, the author discovered that overly long, repetitive, or outdated documentation could negatively impact Claude's judgment. Examples included: extensive completed history in reading lists, inconsistent naming for the same payment method, tables corrected by footnotes but not in the main text, and rules pointing to invalid Windows paths.
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