150 Lines of Apologies Removed

TL;DR : My AI agent had a 246-line instruction file for managing issues in Linear. 150 of those lines were workarounds: hardcoded UUIDs, curl fallbacks, notes like "the CLI doesn’t support X." I didn’t rewrite them — I built a tool that made them unnecessary. Now those 150 lines are gone. Have you ever written a set of instructions so long that its sheer length proves something is fundamentally wrong? I’m not talking about legitimate documentation. I mean those files that start with "use tool X"