Scripting News: Monday, May 18, 2026
Monday, May 18, 2026 The Mind of Claude # I have taught Claude Code to write software the way I do. # It has abilities that I don't, for example, I give them 1000 lines of code, highly factored, with lots of thought into making it readable and maintainable, and always falling short (our languages today fight against readability imho), and get this -- it can read different parts of the same code in parallel, and in two or three seconds have a complete understanding of it. # I couldn't do it even if I had a week. I would totally depend on clues left there. # What's even more amazing is that when it writes code for me, it does it my way, mostly without any prompting from me. This was done over and over until I realized I had to tell it to save it and read it when a new session starts. That's how it accumulates knowledge. Anything that isn't in one of those files has to be relearned, and that's most of what it, as ...