Why Claude Code Needs a Strong Harness, Not Just a Bigger Model, for Million‑Line Codebases
The article dissects Anthropic’s official guidance on deploying Claude Code in massive codebases, showing that context overflow stems from an inadequate harness rather than model size, and presents seven concrete pitfalls with solutions—including limiting CLAUDE.md to 200 lines, using LSP, initializing in subdirectories, leveraging hooks, skills, plugins, and MCP integration—to make the AI coding assistant effective at scale.
