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        "Follow me on X: https://x.com/jiayuan_jy A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.",
        "English | \u7b80\u4f53\u4e2d\u6587 From Andrej's post: \"The models make wrong assumptions on your behalf and just run along with them without checking.",
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        "FTA contains 100 tasks with deterministic failure traces spanning five failure families, a neutral control, and four user-pressure conditions, and evaluates unsupported claims alongside useful recovery.",
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