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Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other A couple of days ago I recounted a common complaint :

I keep seeing programmers say how angry it makes them that people are willing to write detailed CLAUDE.md and PROJECT.md files for Claude to use, but they weren't willing to write them for their coworkers.

For larger projects, I've taken to having Claude maintain a handoff document that I can have the next Claude read, saying what we planned to do, what has been done, and other pertinent information. Then when I shut down one Claude I can have the next one read the file to get up to speed. Then I have the Claude !!n+1!! update it for Claude !!n+2!!.