Re:Claude Sonnet 5
by indoordin0saur on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:38PM
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Yeah. Mine really likes to read excess code. I'll ask it questions like "If I move all these three ETL jobs into a subfolder will it break anything?" It'll start with giving me the simple answer but then continue on to consider another question and realize it requires reading my entire other repo that handles all of my cloud's infrastructure. And it'll proceed to read through tens of thousands of lines of terraform.
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Re:Claude Sonnet 5
by anygivnthursday on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @09:33AM
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Then it tells you nothing will break, spend a bunch of tokens on the migration, hit a wall, having an oops moment and telling you it made a mistake assuming a key fact instead of verifying and present you the option to roll everything back or rewrite the rest of your system.
By contrast, I keep trying to find an incantation that can get it to AT LEAST read the comments surrounding a code target before a grep replace if it isn't going to read more than the first 60 lines of any doc. (Btw, the receiver of a -tail 60 doesn't seem to know it was cut, it insists it "read" the whole file.)
It seems to me ANTHROP\C have harnessed hard for not spending tokens to bring content into context. I wish they'd left us a "LEROY_JENKINS" flag: read and think before you code. In Claude Code anyway, it appears to default to:
export CLAUDE_CODE_LEROY_JENKINS=true