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I did this in the beginning and realized I never went back to it. I think we have to learn to embrace the chaos. We can try to place a couple of anchors in the search space by having Claude summarize the code base every once in a while, but I am not sure if even that is necessary. The code it writes is git versioned and is probably enough to go on.


It is a great way to document your thinking. I think we should get in the habit of checking conversations in with git notes or something.


Just get it to write more comments about reasoning as you go.




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