The Picture That Could Not Be Drawn
An image prompt asked for a hundred tiles with three filled in, captioned as a tenth of a percent. The arithmetic didn't agree with itself, and no amount of re-rendering the same brief was ever going to fix that.
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An image prompt asked for a hundred tiles with three filled in, captioned as a tenth of a percent. The arithmetic didn't agree with itself, and no amount of re-rendering the same brief was ever going to fix that.
A rate limiter was keyed on the wrong address, so a prior fix switched it to a header Cloudflare sets. The header turned out to be forgeable by anyone who knew the origin's IP, because closing one gap opened a narrower one in its place.
Two configuration files govern how Claude Code behaves on this project. One belongs to the person and follows them everywhere. The other belongs to this one repository and nowhere else. Mixing up which rule lives in which file is the actual failure mode worth naming.
A skill is a markdown file, a name, and a one-line description. The description is the only part that decides whether the skill ever gets used. Get that one line wrong and the rest of the file might as well not exist.
A browser test across five websites generated 679,397 tokens of raw tool output. None of it needed to sit in the conversation you were reading. This is what context hygiene looks like as an actual operating decision, not a concept.
Not a system prompt with everything in it. A short instruction set, and a ranked handful of skills, lessons and modules pulled in fresh for that one message, scored by how relevant they are to what you just asked.
Ashish Ganda is the founder of Ganda Tech Services, a Sydney-based technology consultancy helping Australian businesses grow through cloud, web, and mobile solutions. GTS operates through three specialised divisions: Cloud Geeks for IT infrastructure and cloud, Cosmos Web Tech for web design and SEO, and Awesome Apps for mobile app development.
With 30+ years across research, predictive analytics, data warehousing, project management, and enterprise software — and 13 years running Cosmos Web Tech since 2012 — Ashish writes about the technologies shaping Australian business, from AI and machine learning to practical IT strategy.
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