jchilcher

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I benchmarked 10 Claude.md profiles across 1,188 runs – empty won every time(techloom.it)
2 points by jchilcher 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jchilcher 7mo ago
The single repeating heading as an index anchor is a smart middle ground — keeps structure without the full markdown overhead. The "single line rationale, no tutorial explanations" constraint is interesting, that's essentiall
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by jchilcher 7mo ago
Good callout on the tokenizer — I was measuring character reduction, not actual token savings, so the real gains are smaller than the headline numbers suggest. You're right that this matters most at the edges: Haiku, large codebases, o
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by jchilcher 7mo ago
This is the cleaner solution honestly. Keep the human-readable version as source of truth, generate the compressed version as a build step. I've been doing it manually but automating that transform is the obvious next evolution. Might
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by jchilcher 7mo ago
Fair point — headers do carry semantic meaning for section navigation, especially in longer files. My experience was that removing them didn't change behavior noticeably, but I was working with fairly flat files. If your CLAUDE.md has
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by jchilcher 7mo ago
Curious if others have experimented with this — I found the memory system files compressed more aggressively than the project CLAUDE.md because they had more prose decoration. Anyone tried a middle ground where you keep human-readable forma
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Compress Your Claude.md: Cut 60-70% of System Prompt Bloat in Claude Code(techloom.it)
25 points by jchilcher 7mo ago|9 comments