mine kept growing until I'm pretty sure claude was just skipping half of it. ended up doing the same... moved verbose stuff into separate files and only kept the absolute hard rules in claude.md. rules it cant grep its way around.
on the fine tune... I feel like the gain probably isnt worth the maintenance vs just adding another constraint to the prompt. did you find concrete cases where prompting just couldnt get you there?
on the fine tune... I feel like the gain probably isnt worth the maintenance vs just adding another constraint to the prompt. did you find concrete cases where prompting just couldnt get you there?