the framing as "debt" is fair but in our case the bigger pain isn't lazy code, it's overzealous code. claude will happily refactor three unrelated files because

the framing as "debt" is fair but in our case the bigger pain isn't lazy code, it's overzealous code. claude will happily refactor three unrelated files because it spotted a "pattern". we've ended up with a CLAUDE.md that's basically a list of "do not touch unless asked". probably says more about us than the model but yeah.