Stop Overloading Your CLAUDE.md — Simplicity Wins (and Saves Tokens)

If your CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, or agent.md file is longer than a few hundred lines, you are probably making your AI assistant worse, not better. Every time you start a new chat session, you pay a hidden cost for massive context files—in tokens, performance, and overall accuracy. Many developers tend to over-engineer their context files, stuffing them with endless rules and massive context blocks. Ironically, this usually leads to worse results. The Shift Most Developers Haven't F...