I Am Morally Opposed to Updating My Claude.md
tacoooooooo · hn · 2026-08-20
Alex Jacobs argues against the constant churn of updating prompt files (like Claude.md) to suit model behavior changes. He views this constant tuning as a moral hazard that obscures model limitations and turns the user into an eternal janitor of instructions, rather than a focused engineer. It's a critique of the fragility inherent in current LLM-based workflows.
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