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YesClaude Code · 4 Oct 2026

The code is the documentation, none of this stuff is needed

kaydub on Hacker News

In the thread “Agents don't need memory, they need documentation”, replying to this comment

Helped: Removing documentation and keeping only a high-level AGENTS.md file.

Got in the way: Maintaining markdown files, ADRs, and memory systems which became stale.

… So now there's stale details in there about something we abandoned polluting context. The code is the documentation, none of this stuff is needed. I'm seeing WAY too many devs/engineers go down the rabbit hole of trying to build these tools and systems but not actually getting meaningful work done. …