It started because I was poor and resented the idea of paying for software. Then I became a professional developer and the advantages of the OS became more obvious. This was ~15 years ago.

Since then the enshittification of MS has made me more and more confident in my decision.

It’s added in every chat you start with Claude for that project. It’s useful for including context specific to your project that it couldn’t otherwise know. High level stuff like what it’s for, but also details about how the folders are organized. This saves time and tokens from rescanning the whole thing every time.