Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other
Hacker News (AI keywords)·3d ago·Opinion
The post responds to complaints that programmers now write detailed CLAUDE.md and PROJECT.md files for AI, but not for coworkers. The author describes using Claude to maintain handoff notes between sessions and generate final high-level project summaries. His advice is to review those documents carefully, then commit them to the repository because they may help future maintainers.