Understanding LLMsThrough Claude Code

Understand the structural constraints of LLMs and learn "why" configurations are designed the way they are.

Part 1: 8 Structural Problems

Context Rot, Lost in the Middle, Priority Saturation, Hallucination, Sycophancy, Knowledge Boundary, Prompt Sensitivity, Instruction Decay

The LLM's "thinking space" — tokens, context budget, and injection timing

CLAUDE.md (always-loaded), Rules (conditional), Skills & Agents (on-demand)

Tool definitions as context cost, and the layer LLMs never see

/compact, /clear, and what to persist across sessions

Universal patterns that apply to Cursor, Cline, Copilot, and beyond