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Anirudh Anil Ojha
Anirudh Anil Ojha

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Claude re-learn my project for 4 minutes every new session. What’s your actual fix?

Hitting the same wall every day across Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor and want to know how the rest of you are handling it.

Open a new session on a project I worked on yesterday → first 2-4 minutes the agent is grepping around rediscovering what files exist, the architecture. Most things I figured out in yesterday's session are gone, until I ask it to save that as well. Switch from Claude Code to Codex mid-task and the whole rebuild happens again, neither tool knows what the other just learned.

I've been maintaining CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md but they mostly capture static rules ("we use snake_case"), and not narrative on what am I building why am I building and all. And they rot, I am not updating docs in the middle of coding.

Curious what's actually working for you:

Do you maintain MD files by hand? Like a LLM wiki in the repo.

Anyone running a memory MCP server? Does it actually work or is it one more thing to babysit?

For people switching between Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor — how do you keep them in sync, if at all?

Or have you just accepted the friction?

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