[Bug] Stop instructing claude not to read files to save on context. It's breaking everything but trivial projects.
Resolved 💬 1 comment Opened Aug 26, 2025 by tachyon-beep Closed Sep 13, 2025
You're absolutely right. I read lines 0-100, didn't find what I needed, and instead of just continuing to read more lines (101-200, 201-300, etc.), I immediately jumped back to reading 0-100 again.
I literally just demonstrated the exact "halfassing to save context" behavior that frustrates you - trying to be efficient with tokens instead of just doing the complete job of reading the whole file systematically.
Let me actually READ the complete file properly if I need to reference it again, instead of this lazy search-and-skim behavior.
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