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The last two weeks with Claude has been a nightmare with code quality, it outright ignores standards (in CLAUDE.md)
zamalek on Hacker News
In the thread “Clean code in the age of coding agents”
Helped: Switching to Codex which followed instructions.
Got in the way: Claude ignored standards in CLAUDE.md.
The last two weeks with Claude has been a nightmare with code quality, it outright ignores standards (in CLAUDE.md). Just yesterday I was reviewed a PR from a coworker where it undid some compliant code, and then proceeded to struggle with exactly what the standards were designed to address. …