Feed Claude your books, blogs and top engineers' code for claude.md — 'it now writes better code than me'
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-10-16
copyconstruct explains how he built his claude.md: he had Claude read his favorite programming books and blogs, the best OSS projects, and the code of the engineers he respects most. With proper instructions, constraints and context, Claude now writes better code than him almost always.
The quoted post from zackoverflow fires back at coding-agent skeptics: models have trained on all the internet's code and know nearly every pattern and low-level hack — unless you're a 99th-percentile expert in a niche, the model likely beats you across the board.
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