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Anthropic details Claude Code performance in large production codebases
May 16, 2026
Anthropic released production guidance for Claude Code operating on multi-million-line monorepos using filesystem traversal instead of embedding-based RAG, demonstrating superior performance on active codebases where index staleness degrades retrieval tools.
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https://claude.com/blog/how-claude-code-works-in-large-codebases-best-practices-and-where-to-startRELATED COVERAGE