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Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
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Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
#12> The reasoning was in a transcript on my laptop. Claude Code deletes those after 30 days by default. Two of my projects lost their whole history that way. Wait what? Claude Code (and Codex) transcripts are auto-deleted?? That's a treasure trove of information for all my projects and I had built some tooling and workflows tahat deal with extracting insights from them -- withut ever realizing I mightbe losing old chat…
Yes but it's just a setting you can change I don't think you really need an archival step
Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
#13Good catch on CTOs part. That scenario is one that keeps me awake at night -- that some large PR of mine has come functionality or feature that I didn't ask for and didn't notice. How did the CTO respond to "Claude did it and I didn't catch it"? Did the AI PR summary mention it? Or did the CTO just read the code?
I am fighting against people doing this every day, and we've made it extremely clear that your computer and processes running on it are an extension of you, a human, who is responsible for the actions on your computer.
Won't that slow you down a lot? I get it in principle, but in practice if you have to review everything your coding agent does the productivity gains diminish significantly
Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
#14> The reasoning was in a transcript on my laptop. Claude Code deletes those after 30 days by default. Two of my projects lost their whole history that way. Wait what? Claude Code (and Codex) transcripts are auto-deleted?? That's a treasure trove of information for all my projects and I had built some tooling and workflows tahat deal with extracting insights from them -- withut ever realizing I mightbe losing old chat…
> "cleanupPeriodDays": 99999
Throw that in ~/.claude/settings.json
Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
#15100% important. But what decisions do you care about seeing?
The whole point of the agent is to make decisions for you. If you want to make every little detailed decision, just write the code.
The whole art of this problem is figuring out which decisions matter to you, and how to surface them.
(Disclosure: we're working on this too. https://tern.sh)
Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am fighting against people doing this every day, and we've made it extremely clear that your computer and processes running on it are an extension of you, a human, who is responsible for the actions on your computer.
Won't that slow you down a lot? I get it in principle, but in practice if you have to review everything your coding agent does the productivity gains diminish significantly
I guess you get to choose between reviewing it yourself or wasting someone else’s time
Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
#17This is what commit messages are for.
Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
#18> The reasoning was in a transcript on my laptop. Claude Code deletes those after 30 days by default. Two of my projects lost their whole history that way. Wait what? Claude Code (and Codex) transcripts are auto-deleted?? That's a treasure trove of information for all my projects and I had built some tooling and workflows tahat deal with extracting insights from them -- withut ever realizing I mightbe losing old chat…
Horrifying, isn't it?
Amazing to me how little these companies respect the historic value of the transcripts. Most of my work is captured in them now.
Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am fighting against people doing this every day, and we've made it extremely clear that your computer and processes running on it are an extension of you, a human, who is responsible for the actions on your computer.
Won't that slow you down a lot? I get it in principle, but in practice if you have to review everything your coding agent does the productivity gains diminish significantly
I can’t tell if you are serious. Are you serious?
Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am fighting against people doing this every day, and we've made it extremely clear that your computer and processes running on it are an extension of you, a human, who is responsible for the actions on your computer.
Won't that slow you down a lot? I get it in principle, but in practice if you have to review everything your coding agent does the productivity gains diminish significantly
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