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I was kind of taken aback by the author's definition of 'terse'. I was expecting a discussion about architecture not about syntax aesthetics.

Personally I don't like short variable names, short function names or overly fancy syntactical shortcuts... But I'm obsessed with minimizing the amount of logic.

I want my codebases to be as minimalist as possible. When I'm coding, I'm discovering the correct lines, not inventing them.

This is why I like using Claude Code on my personal projects. When Claude sees my code, it unlocks a part of its exclusive, ultra-elite, zero-bs code training set. Few can tap into this elite set. Your codebase is the key which can unlock ASI-like performance from your LLMs.

My friend was telling me about all the prompt engineering tricks he knows... And in a typical midwit meme moment; I told him, dude, relax, my codebase basically writes itself now. The coding experience is almost bug free. It just works first time.

I told my friend I'd consider letting him code on my codebase if he uses an LLM... And he took me up on the offer... I merged his first major PR directly without comment. It seems even his mediocre Co-pilot was capable of getting his PR to the standard.


I'd bet a lot of people are trying to optimize their codebases for LLMs. I'd be interested to see some examples of your ASI-unlocking codebase in action!
If you're interested, I added my email to my profile 'about' section. I could try to screen record my next feature development on one of my side projects.

I'm also kind of interested to see how others use LLMs for coding. I can speak for myself having worked on both good and bad code-bases; my experience is that it works MUCH better on those 'good' codebases (by my definition).

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