4 CLAUDE.md Mistakes That Are Killing Your AI Coding Sessions (And How to Fix Them)

Why your CLAUDE.md is hurting your AI coding sessions After reviewing dozens of codebases where developers use Cursor and Claude Code, I kept seeing the same CLAUDE.md mistakes over and over. Here is what I found — and how to fix it. The 4 mistakes that burn your token budget 1. Too long — burns context before actual code Most CLAUDE.md files I see are 3,000+ tokens of aspirational rules. The AI reads them before every response. That is expensive and often ignored. F...