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Stale Documentation

The tendency of written notes about a codebase to drift out of step with the code they describe, and the practices used to detect, repair or quarantine them.

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Routing a 194,492-character CLAUDE.md by failure cost left 47 rules resident

A dev.to write-up cut a 194,492-character CLAUDE.md to 17,283 by changing what triggers each rule to load, sorting them by what breaks if one stays unloaded at the moment it matters. The harness that checks the result runs one headless Claude Code session per prompt.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption12
Hype gap+25
Incentives30
Confidence60