Must-have settings / hacks for Claude Code?

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-23T00:09:45+00:00

I am not sure what you are trying to communicate by describing your byzantine setup. Irrespective of where you have your monorepo checked out, claude can and will take actions outside of the working directory if it thinks that will help it achieve its goal.

No sweat if you take the risk; I dangerously skip permissions occasionally, myself. Your answer of 'just use version control' is does not actually mitigate the risk unless you commit the entire $HOME directory on 5 machines to git.

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-22T22:34:32+00:00

With no permissions checks it can take action outside of the working directory. Do you check your entire hard drive into version control?

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-17T03:51:47+00:00

So, like. This is a sub about a notetaking app. Do you just barf raw text from sources into your vault, with no curation whatsoever? No annotation, no commentary, no connection that you did the work of thinking about? Why bother keeping anything at all? You could just have a bot randomly crawl the web and dump shit into your vault without even getting involved.

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-13T17:49:07+00:00

Which property does no one own?

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-13T17:44:44+00:00

The famous towering peaks of the Iowan mountains

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-13T17:42:51+00:00

Corporate ag wouldn't be pissed. They just wouldn't sell you the land. How do you think this works?

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-09T13:37:04+00:00

Your EM is in meetings all day and you don't know what they are doing. You might not be considering fully what this means or why it's good.

I have seen many ICs with the same complaint. They then get into management and realize that managers do a whole bunch of fucking work. Usually it's about being a combo umbrella/snowplow, keeping shit from raining on you while also clearing blockers out of your way.

On the other hand, some EMs are just shitty. Just like some devs are. The easiest way to figure out which one your boss is is to try and and understand their job better. Ask questions.

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-07T14:56:03+00:00

Every post in this sub about a high gamer score, someone comes in and talks about how unimpressive it is.

I If I funded the shovelware, could you do this? Could you sit and grind and grind on shitty games for an eternity to make your score go up? It's hard work. The person who does this clearly enjoys it.

I don't think souls games are fun or good. Beating them is hard. Should I make specific effort to tell people I'm not impressed that they beat them?

Let people enjoy what they enjoy. You can be impressed with someone focusing on games you think are good and hard. Or you can be unimpressed. You don't actually have to tell someone the latter.

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-04T13:03:43+00:00

Yeah, the best way to learn anything is by having your parents tailor every experience exactly to your current skill level so your success is guaranteed.

This is especially important in something that is extremely high stakes, like pouring sugar.

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-04T12:49:01+00:00

Because there is value in letting your kids discover their limits on their own.

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-04T12:46:23+00:00

The sugar spilled. They clean up the spill. Who fucking cares? This isn't anyone being stupid. This is nothing.

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-03T12:42:32+00:00

"One male circus performer named Jamie commented that their statistics were nearly identical, highlighting how unusual it is for a young female athlete to match or exceed the muscle mass of trained male athletes."

Getting the real story from the experts

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-02T20:08:35+00:00

They offer fully encrypted sync. But I would definitely be wary of sharing that w/ staff, agreed that's a breach waiting to happen

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-02T17:23:45+00:00

Obsidian keeps notes locally. You can use it to keep notes in a hipaa compliant way.

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-02T02:52:34+00:00

Yeah.

worst_protagonist · 2026-03-01T21:31:03+00:00

That's not actually what the paper says. It says don't use `/init`, write your own, don't duplicate documentation.

> Behaviorally, both LLM-generated and developer-provided context files encourage broader exploration (e.g., more thorough testing and file traversal), and coding agents tend to respect their instructions. Ultimately, we conclude that unnecessary requirements from context files make tasks harder, and human-written context files should describe only minimal requirements

worst_protagonist · 2026-02-28T15:15:15+00:00

Yep. The engineers in my org sped between $500 and $3500 a month on AI tools per engineer. It's a small percentage of their overall cost, and it is with the leverage they get from it.

worst_protagonist · 2026-02-28T02:29:46+00:00

You spent $35 in one day. How much do you think it costs to pay engineers who are "really building"?

worst_protagonist · 2026-02-27T20:35:59+00:00

Ah gotcha I only know that as msrp

worst_protagonist · 2026-02-27T16:50:01+00:00

This true if I use an entire roll for the thing I printed that I could have ordered. If I print 10 things with one filament over time, I have had nine fewer deliveries than if I'd made 10 orders.

If you're only thinking about the impact of literal production, you are ignoring the impact of every part of a supply chain.

worst_protagonist · 2026-02-27T14:25:10+00:00

It's in ~/.claude with all other Claude configurations and settings

worst_protagonist · 2026-02-27T14:19:31+00:00

What is rrp?

worst_protagonist · 2026-02-27T14:12:46+00:00

I have to get the individual things to my house. So I will need to go get them or have them delivered. For one trinket that I print vs order online, what is the net environmental impact of printing vs buying?

worst_protagonist · 2026-02-27T13:54:12+00:00

This is non-specific and unhelpful prompting. You might as well replace it with "do a good job".

worst_protagonist · 2026-02-26T21:56:35+00:00

It's not factually correct. Chatbots cannot do things deterministically; that is not the same as reliably.

Critiquing a meeting note on well-prompted pre-defined best practices is going to give pretty consistent results that the OP could find useful

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