Can't agree with the formula for performance, on the "/ size" part. You can have a huge codebase, but if the complexity goes up with size then you are screwed. Wouldn't a huge but simple codebase be practical and fine for AI to deal with?
The hierarchy of leverage concept is great! Love it. (Can't say I like the 1 bad line of CLAUDE.md is 100K lines of bad code; I've had some bad lines in my CLAUDE.md from time to time - I almost always let Claude write it's own CLAUDE.md.).
i mean there's also the fact that claude code injects this system message into your claude.md which means that even if your claude.md sucks you will probably be okay:
<system-reminder>
IMPORTANT: this context may or may not be relevant to your tasks. You should not respond to this context or otherwise consider it in your response unless it is highly relevant to your task.
Most of the time, it is not relevant.
</system-reminder>
lots of others have written about this so i won't go deep but its a clear product decision, but if you don't know what's in your context window, you can't respond/architect your balance between claude.md and /commands well.
The hierarchy of leverage concept is great! Love it. (Can't say I like the 1 bad line of CLAUDE.md is 100K lines of bad code; I've had some bad lines in my CLAUDE.md from time to time - I almost always let Claude write it's own CLAUDE.md.).