Richard Kelly

Lead Data Systems Analyst at UC Irvine Health

Richard Kelly is Lead Data Systems Analyst at UC Irvine Health. At Data Con LA he is speaking on how to stop AI coding assistants quietly ignoring the directive files you write for them.

Talks

Data Con LA 2026

The Context Window Ate My Steering File

Lightning Talks

There are ways to minimize the chance that your directive files (eg. CLAUDE.md) will get ignored. Will highlight at least two methods (monitoring the context usage, and the idea of a sacrificial rule)

https://youtu.be/hSSMkanmjCE?t=620