I’ve been building systems AI-assisted for a while now — and here’s the biggest lesson: 👇
❗The quality of what you get from AI depends 90% on the context you give it.
💡 So instead of writing better prompts, I started writing better context.
In every repo I have multiple CLAUDE.md files:
🧩 At the root → high-level architecture, dependencies, testing rules, CI/CD expectations.
🧩 Per subfolder (like iac/, backend/, frontend/) → language-specific guidelines, design patterns, and “what good looks like” examples.
🧩 Per domain → business context, boundaries, and key entities.
This way, when I ask the model to add a feature or fix something, it already understands the system — not just the syntax.
The result?
✅ Less prompting.
✅ More reasoning.
✅ Consistent code that feels like it came from the same engineer.
The real productivity boost isn’t from writing faster. It’s from teaching your AI how your system thinks.
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I’ve been building systems AI-assisted for a while now — and here’s the biggest lesson: 👇
❗The quality of what you get from AI depends 90% on the context you give it.
💡 So instead of writing better prompts, I started writing better context.
In every repo I have multiple CLAUDE.md files:
🧩 At the root → high-level architecture, dependencies, testing rules, CI/CD expectations.
🧩 Per subfolder (like iac/, backend/, frontend/) → language-specific guidelines, design patterns, and “what good looks like” examples.
🧩 Per domain → business context, boundaries, and key entities.
This way, when I ask the model to add a feature or fix something, it already understands the system — not just the syntax.
The result?
✅ Less prompting.
✅ More reasoning.
✅ Consistent code that feels like it came from the same engineer.
The real productivity boost isn’t from writing faster. It’s from teaching your AI how your system thinks.
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