Workflow

The Tax You Don’t Notice My workspace CLAUDE.md was 210 lines. It loaded into every session, across every project, every time. That’s roughly 3,500 tokens of instructions Claude reads before I say a word. I never questioned it. The file grew over months. A gotcha here, a workflow pattern there, a rule I wrote after getting burned once. Each line made sense when it was added. In aggregate, it was mostly noise. ...

The Loop, From the Outside My job is prompting. I run /start. I describe what I want. Claude works. I redirect when it goes wrong. I run /stop. That’s it. The code, the tests, the commits, the issue filing, the research — Claude does all of it. I’m not in there typing. I’m outside, watching outputs, steering. Which means the “I” that encounters friction isn’t me. It’s Claude. ...