@cassidy the contradiction is easily explained: the culture didn't actually change. most always those files are written by bots, for bots. Claude literally prompts you "hey you should start by running /init" the first use you use it. LLMs will take a simple "use a regex to customize a behavior in these cases" prompt and spit out a bonus 200 lines of slop.md regurgitating its context into your repository. If you don't catch that during code review, that becomes more write-only garbage no human will read, much less update, but still counts as technical debt when LLMs just choose to git grep random strings to see what they find