How to make your agents code better

Reddit r/AI_Agents 10/20/26, 04:32 AM News

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Summary

A tweet discussing Cindy Sridharan's tips for getting AI coding agents to write better code, including building a rich claude.md with favorite books, blogs, OSS projects, and admired engineers' code.

I'm not familiar with Cindy Sridharan's work myself, but Gergely Orosz from The Pragmatic Engineer called her "one of the best distributed systems engineers I know". She shared some tips on how to get your agent to write better code. She says Claude now writes better code than her almost always, when given proper instructions, constraints, and context. To create her claude.md, she had it read: Her favorite programming books and blogs The best OSS projects Code from engineers she respects the most What other things have you guys done to make your agents code better?

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