Robot Begging on the Street… Then This Happened 🤖
He was just sitting there asking for money… until someone actually gave him a coin.
🤖💰 What happened next was unexpected.
you deleted a note out of your claude.md because it was eating context
block level html comments are stripped before the file is ever injected, they have always cost zero
so the thing you removed was free,
and the directory listing you kept is the part the model can work out from the repo on its own
the two hundred line target is about adherence and not about cost,
longer files get followed less consistently,
which is a different problem with a different fix
cut duplicates and cut what the code already says
put the maintainer notes back in html comments and never pay for them again
you were not saving context
you were deleting the only free thing in the file