Claude code

Opus 5 Made Claude Code Chatty. Three Changes Reined It In.

Every new Claude Code model shows up with a different posture. Opus 5's is talkative. Here's the tone section and the one-line hook I use to get the answer at the top.

I Spent Months Tuning My AI Config. Last Week I Deleted Most of It.

Anthropic cut 80% of the Claude Code system prompt. I audited my own setup expecting bloat and found something worse — instructions that contradicted each other, with nothing to tell me.

I Built a Workaround for Claude's Memory Problem. Then I Retired It.

How a Claude Code plugin called claude-mem eliminated my context window workaround by giving every session persistent memory across projects.