A walkthrough of building a useful Claude Code status line that shows your current repo, git branch, staged/unstaged changes, and context window usage percentage. The context percentage is the most valuable part: it helps you know when to compact or start a fresh session before quality degrades.
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Reading code with AI, not generating it
A good piece on using AI to understand a large existing codebase instead of generating more code. It shares practical onboarding tactics and prompts that help map domains, dependencies, and architecture faster. Read more
