What Changed
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What Changed
In the old model, you opened a chat window and started from scratch. Every session was stateless. The AI didn’t know who you were, how you worked, what you cared about, or what you’d asked it yesterday. So prompting was about cramming as much of that into the beginning of each conversation as possible. Hence the elaborate templates, the PAST and SHAPE frameworks (both of which I wrote and stand behind — they were genuinely useful for their era), the saved prompts people would paste in before asking anything.
Claude Code works differently. It can read files. It can be given persistent instructions that load every time you start a session. It can reference your Obsidian vault, your code, your previous work. The context doesn’t have to live in the prompt — it can live in files that are always present.
This is not a minor convenience. It changes the whole approach.