alt Hacker News> Don’t abuse DRY, a little duplication is better than unnecessary dependencies.
That's an interesting thing to include. I agree with this point in principle, but I've found that Claude, at least, duplicates logic FAR too often and needs nudging in the other direction.
> but I've found that Claude, at least
You hit on a very important point here. The linked AGENTS.md is a bad idea for general purpose use because the things it's meant to tackle, including an inherent bias towards or against DRY, is one of the big differences between model families. GPT 5.4 Codex has a very different "coding personality" from Claude Opus.
It's a product of whatever model it was tested on.