HOW WE ONBOARDED CLAUDE

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

This YC company treats Claude like any new engineer, with a formal onboarding doc (CLAUDE.md) checked into source control that gets updated whenever Claude does something dumb. The result is Claude now handles chunks of the company's engineering work, creating GitHub issues and PRs while following strict workflows to avoid its favorite failure modes like committing to main, claiming it tested code it can't run, and ignoring documentation completely.