Your CLAUDE.md Is Wasting Tokens (And It's Probably Not Helping)

There's a ritual that's become standard in the AI coding agent world. You spin up Claude Code or a similar agent harness, you create a CLAUDE.md or agent.md, and you start listing things: which framework you use, how you want code structured, what tone to respond in. You've read that the best results come from giving the model more context. The ritual feels productive. It might even work initially. But it's probably making your agent dumber over time, and almost certainly wasting money. Here's...