Your coding agent is good at reading code. Point Claude Code or Cursor at a repo and it will figure out the language, the framework, the build command — it just costs you tokens and a few tool calls every session to re-derive what it forgot. What it can't read is the part that isn't in the code: who the project is for,and why it exists. So it guesses. Confidently, in the same tone it uses for the facts it actually verified. I wanted to see how big that gap is on real projects, so I ...