Ask HN: How Do You Actually Use Claude Code Effectively?

Re:Ask HN: How Do You Actually Use Claude Code Effectively? by breckenedge on Monday June 23, 2025 @10:15PM (#44362294)

Make sure your project has a CLAUDE.md or CLAUDE.local.md. You can use Claude to help you come up with this. Use Claude to maintain a list of common, simple workflows and reference them in CLAUDE.md. It’s not great yet for large scale work or refactors but it’s getting better month-by-month. It may never be able to do big work in one-shot.

I run tasks in parallel and definitely hit the rate limits.

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Re:Ask HN: How Do You Actually Use Claude Code Effectively? by sukit on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @03:29AM (#44363698)

I might be misunderstanding how it works, but from what I’ve seen, CLAUDE.md doesn’t seem to be automatically pulled into context. For example, I’ve explicitly written in CLAUDE.md to avoid using typing.Dict and prefer dict instead — but Claude still occasionally uses typing.Dict.

Do I need to explicitly tell Claude to read CLAUDE.md at the start of every session for it to consistently follow those preferences?

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Re:Ask HN: How Do You Actually Use Claude Code Effectively? by breckenedge on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @02:49PM (#44369502)

No, Claude Code will automatically read CLAUDE.md. LLMs are still hit or miss at following specific instructions. If you have a linter, you can put a rule there and tell Claude to use the linter.

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