Cindy Sridharan: Claude now outcodes me when fed the right context in claude.md
nian2326076 · reddit · 2026-10-20
Cindy Sridharan, whom Gergely Orosz calls 'one of the best distributed systems engineers I know', shared how she gets coding agents to write better code: with proper instructions, constraints, and context, Claude now almost always writes better code than she does.
Her recipe for building claude.md: have the model read her favorite programming books and blogs, top OSS projects, and code from engineers she most respects — systematically feeding high-quality context to the agent.
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