r/ClaudeCode • u/JuniorRow1247 • May 08 '26
Humor soooo claude just deleted my entire project. how's your day going?
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u/Brave-History-6502 May 08 '26
use source control
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u/JuniorRow1247 May 08 '26
you're absolutely right
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u/yes_i_tried_google May 08 '26
Would you like me to help set that up for you next?
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u/themoregames May 08 '26
They have no disk space left, can you help with that, too?
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u/CantWeAllGetAlongNF May 09 '26
No problem. Kernel and other useless system files removed
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u/RabbiSchlem May 08 '26
How is it 2026 and you have no vcs???? Is git init too much to ask for?
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u/JackAsofAllTrades May 11 '26
Also bud, note the fact that your disk filled up, and an agentic tool is not a magic wand
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u/Rabus May 08 '26
if you dont like github just build a local gitea or gitlab also
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u/No-Aioli-4656 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
Gitea or Forgejo. Gitlab is terrible advice.
I’m convinced anyone who says “Just self host gitlab.” either hasn’t done it and is suffering from Reddit brainrot(most likely), or is so far up the ass of devops/selfhosting they don’t understand gitlab is almost never the solution. It’s big, is slow fucking ruby, the ui is ass, the config file is 5k lines long, it takes 8gb ram to just sit idle.
Source: I “build”(self host) gitlab.
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u/Spaceman_Splff May 08 '26
I spun up a gitlab instance a couple days ago on my home server and two days later my vm crashed due to memory killer alerts. Gitlab sucked up all the ram allocated to the vm.
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u/No-Aioli-4656 May 08 '26
Yup. You can get close to 2gb, or even 1.5 but you gotta KNOW what you’re doing; 2 puma workers, disable Prometheus, etc.
We are in r/claudecode for Christ sakes. Maybe 20% of the people on here have access to VPS’s or homelabs? If that?
Advice above me to “build” was terrible terrible advice.
If anything, just use local git. Have ai help you to set remote to a separate usb drive for a backup. Done.
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u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 May 09 '26
“Just use local git”
Dumb advice.
How the fuck do you expect OP to do that?? The guy’s disk is 100% full!
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u/No-Aioli-4656 May 09 '26
This assumes OP has the presence of mind to clean up his computer.
Because living life on the edge of full disk space is well documented as a completely stupid thing to do.
Once OP stops treating the computer in a way similar to how a toddler would, they can begin implementing proper steps.
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u/WiseassWolfOfYoitsu May 08 '26
Second vote for Forgejo here. Was easy to get set up and super lightweight for something local.
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u/Confident-Item-2298 May 09 '26
With the recent github issues ive seen this alot, people recommending gitlab left and right. I think this is a very good advice, they need to suffer a little ti start appreciate tech
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u/sargetun123 May 09 '26
Been running forgejo for years it barely touches 1gb of ram usage ever lol for the whole lxc included
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u/Gears6 May 08 '26
I love Gitlab at work. In fact, I think I like it more than Github. That said, I don't really think self hosting is the solution for most things. Cloud just makes a lot more sense with reliability, less headaches, less work, distributed, and available very cheaply. It's also offsite and likely safer too.
If you're a developer, you want to spend time developing a product, not manage your tools. That's for larger companies.
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u/BigBootyWholes May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
You don’t need a remote host to use git just so y’all know
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u/ia42 May 08 '26
Of course not, but you do want to push it to a second location for backup. No need to install anything, it can be another headless repo on a different physical disk (or thumb drive) or a different machine (via ssh). I have a VPS with all my main domains, a dozen websites and their DNS zones - all of /etc is tracked in git and a cron job on my home desktop pulls it daily.
As for the problem OP is having, he ran out of disk space, not Claude's fault.
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u/Terra_Incognito113 May 08 '26
Based off it looks like the project got deleted because the user had no hard drive space they should probably stick with a remote product
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u/SSA22_HCM1 May 08 '26
If the goal is to have an easy backup, set up a bare repo somewhere, even just in a directory on another drive. Or use automatic file versioning or backup software. There are VS code extensions for the former.
No need to set up a whole SaaS platform.
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u/HungryHorace83 May 08 '26
How is Claude at fault for you running out of disk space?
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u/bobthemonkeybutt May 08 '26
And not using any sort of back up system or source control
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u/Gears6 May 08 '26
and Claude technically didn't cause it either. It was supposedly out of space and therefore the file got truncated. Claude didn't delete it like OP claims.
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u/Reaper_1492 May 09 '26
Just posted the same thing. It’s wild that I had to go this far down the thread to see a correct answer.
This is 100% user error, and I’m usually blaming Anthropic for model degradation - but this isn’t that.
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u/N0madM0nad 🔆 Max 20 May 09 '26
Agreed. This smells of vibecoder of the worst species
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u/Reaper_1492 May 09 '26
Everyone needs some grace when they are learning but Claude literally told them what the problem was 🙄
And then 90% of the people posting have no idea either. Just really wild.
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u/snug-crackle-policy May 09 '26
Claude was supposed to buy and install a new SSD before running low on storage
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u/cerved May 09 '26
The disk being full doesn't truncate files. So if Claude doing a truncate + write them yes, Claude truncated the file. There are safer ways to write files
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u/GfxJG May 08 '26
Why the hell haven't you comitted even once throughout an entire day's work?
I totally understand that it's annoying, but... This is kinda on you.
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u/jWoose Senior Developer May 10 '26
I'm just going to say, if committing to git at least once per day is annoying, making software might not be the right thing to get into (I'm not saying this about you GfxJG, just the proverbial person). Especially since Claude will literally do it for you. It's one of those things that any vibe coder is just going to have to learn how to do regularly. My advice to any vibe coder. Learn what a PR is and start making that the workflow you use to add new code to your project. And again, Claude will literally do it for you.
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u/pooya535 May 08 '26
"what the fuck is git"-maxxing
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u/marioteik May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
The guy is file maxing, file system mogging you, and vibe coding mogging you.
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u/Gears6 May 08 '26
"what the fuck is git"-maxxing
LMAO! looksmaxxing to the max in every part of life!
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u/AlaskanX May 08 '26
Wait. so your disk was full. And something about how claude edits the file results in it being truncated when the disk filled up. And you're blaming claude because your hard drive was full?
This is your fault, not claude's fault.
And the file probably exists in claude's memory still since it has been reading and writing to it. You could tell it to rewrite the entire file once you have enough room.
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u/djdadi May 08 '26
exactly. it was reconstructing the file in memory, then tried to flush to disk. its almost certainly in the conversation history.
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u/insta May 08 '26
just like all the other times "claude deleted everything", it's quite obvious that claude should have had full control over the user's machine and simply removed the unnecessary files filling it up. it's really claude's fault for not hallucinating a remote and pushing git there. put blame where it's due.
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u/LonelyContext 🔆 Max 20 May 08 '26
- Claude didn’t delete your file technically the kernel did. Claude operated as expected.
- Don’t try write operations with no space on your hard drive
- Why don’t you have a bigger hard drive?
- Version control
- Maybe work on projects inside Dropbox or something at the least…?
- Ask Claude to write what it knows of the file from memory to recover as much as possible.
- Maybe if you are running up against space limitations all day take a beat and figure that out (you clearly have a message up there “okay I cleared up some space”) so you’re writing a project in the middle of your workflow kicking the bucket anyway because nothing can write to your full disk any more.
- Windows is so bloated that yeah if you free up 50 mb it’ll crush that space in no time with some cache bullshit.
- A slimmer operating system with greater and more intuitive controls over things like cache and bloat will free up more space in the long run and give you a better handle on how to free up space.
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u/Flyen May 09 '26
Why don’t you have a bigger hard drive?
Claude can take some blame for that. You'll pay 50% more than you did 6 months ago for a drive if you can even find it in stock.
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u/therealnih May 08 '26
This is user error, user should of bought a bigger hard drive.
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u/jaydizzz May 08 '26
And use git. And not put your whole app in one file. Seriously, they should let you take an assessment before opening account. With great power comes great responsibility.
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u/Narretz May 08 '26
Another user error blamed on AI. Almost made me feel for the clanker.
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u/Asuppa180 May 08 '26
Doing work with no space on disk? This is on you dude hah.
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u/Holiday-Coconut-9303 May 08 '26
Genuinely, this could not be more your fault. You caused this by being sloppy. Lesson learned maybe.
Side note, why do you talk to Claude like that? Just shows you've no idea what's going on
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u/Quick-Camel-1674 May 08 '26
Not Claude fault if the person using it is a moron.
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u/McNoxey May 08 '26
Say it with me once again everybody!
Claude didn’t fuck me over. I fucked me over.
You deleted your entire project yourself. From the sounds of it, your project was already dead , you just didn’t know it until this happened
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u/DryHovercraft9662 May 08 '26
your fault for not using some form of version control
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u/Salt-Replacement596 May 09 '26
- using Windows
- no backups, no remote source control
- entire project in a single file
- full disk
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u/superanonguy321 May 08 '26
Is the entire project that one file? It'll still have it in context surely, just rewrite it.
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u/Ok-Government9761 May 08 '26
That’s what I was wondering? If you entire app is in app.py then it’s a very small project or you don’t know python.
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u/JuniorRow1247 May 08 '26
got it back from git eventually. emotional damage permanent.
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u/ipreuss Senior Developer May 08 '26
It even said that everything is lost aside from what’s in git.
Frankly, it sounds a lot like you need to learn more about what you’re actually doing.
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u/McNoxey May 08 '26
Wait just looking at this more closely….
Your entire project was app.py? Jfc lol
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u/rq60 May 08 '26
let’s face it, if your entire application was in app.py it probably did you a favor
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u/CashyJohn May 08 '26
Jokes on you, not on Claude. Not using git assumes the code can be deleted at any point
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u/mxrider108 Developer May 08 '26
If a text file (app.py) is taking your harddrive over the edge on storage space this is a problem just waiting to happen and something you needed to address ages ago...
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u/Confident_Year_1429 May 08 '26
That's on you for not using version control and just letting it run.
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u/Quiet_Yellow2000 May 09 '26
Yeah, Claude didn't do shit here. Your disk was full and you weren't using some kind of source control. This is user error. Another example that you still need competent people.
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u/Possible-Point-2597 May 09 '26
Soo the full project is contained in one single file : app.py 🙄 very nice
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u/N0madM0nad 🔆 Max 20 May 09 '26
This is what happens when you haven't got a fucking clue of what you're doing my friend.
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u/FortuneXan6 May 09 '26
pour one out for another Habit Tracker app taken away from us too soon
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u/TwiceDailyOnlyOnce May 09 '26
This channel needs a vetting process so that we can filter out posts created by Tom in Accounting.
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u/StraightSurprise957 May 09 '26
Anytime you get an honest assessment from Claude Code, you're never gonna like what comes after.:🤣🤣🤣
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u/Mammoth-Hurry-6986 May 08 '26
😂😂😂 welll…. That’s no good… Look at the bright side, now you can start over and build it better than it was 😂
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u/dingo__dog May 08 '26
lmaooooo this is most definitely due to your own incompetence and you screenshotting it and posting it to the world is the actual cherry on top for this humiliation ritual you just completed.
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u/undefined_name May 08 '26
Why would you post this? It clearly shows your a boob.
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u/novus_nl 🔆 Max 5x, Lead Developer May 08 '26
Well that’s one dumb mistake you don’t repeat again.
Maybe use source control (github/gitlab) next time eh?
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u/mountaingator91 May 08 '26
You solve one SMALL issue at a time and you commit after each one. Developers learned this lesson decades ago. Don't vibe code the wheel
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u/NFTokin Vibe Coder May 08 '26
he tried but I am having him roll back to 4 hours ago. Usage I will never !*!!! see again
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u/SmokeyWizard May 08 '26
Hahahaha. I laugh every time I see one of these posts. Sometimes I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing, but these reassure me. Nothing like having an AI working on 4 hours of unsaved work with no backups or source control.
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u/Lilo3423 May 08 '26
No source control and full permissions for the IA to perform commands unanttended. The recipe for shit to happen.
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u/StoneCypher May 08 '26
god forfend you develop day one skills and use git, right?
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u/obviouslybait May 08 '26
Happened to me before, I put a ton of hours into a project document, like 38 pages and it overwrote the whole thing trying to remove some text. It had to rebuild from scratch. Luckily it did with some minor adjustments from me.
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u/cubsfaninstlouis May 08 '26
if only there was some way to prevent this via some sort of place to store all your code on the cloud privately for free, a repository of sorts
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u/endr May 08 '26
If you look at files in VS Code, it has a Timeline feature where every recent change can be reverted
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u/Myth_Thrazz 🔆 Max 20 May 08 '26
I was always wondering - does rewind function work in cases like this? Im assuming it doesnt, but have anyone tried?
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u/Timely-Coffee-6408 May 08 '26
Are you using git? if not welcome to source control. it happens to us all
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u/jedruch May 08 '26
they broke this thing soooo much today. I was going thru a project which has multiple phases - went thru first 4 phases like a dream, phase 5 (started an hour ago) is a disaster, it want's me to allow access of computer use like all the time, when asked to go thru logs within a specified folder (2 folders in project) it analysed "current" conversation for 1 hour, so basically it analysed items it was creating.....
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u/avatardeejay May 08 '26
Come on dude stop. Your entire project was one script. backing it up, moreover teaching claude to back it up for you before edits, you don’t even need claude for that. grandma can back up one file.
How do you deploy claude with so little oversight or responsibility that they’re working till there are 0 bytes on your drive anyway
This doesn’t look like Claude’s mistake
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u/cyansmoker May 08 '26
Claude did not delete your file. There was no space left on your device.
What kind of magic did you expect to happen at this point?
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u/DinnerInfamous128 May 08 '26
So you filled your disk and keep working an a project. Thats your fault, using Claude, Visual Studio or just plain vim.
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u/Savings-Singer-1202 May 08 '26
i don't blame the llm i blame you, if you're not using the llm inside a container and not using any source control, you're honestly calling for it, good on you claude, i hope you learned your lesson
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u/Mammoth-Error1577 May 08 '26
Your entire project, if real, is a single non-source controlled file named app.py.
I think it will be ok.
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u/cleverestx May 08 '26
You guys need to be backing up to github, commit push, etc.... even if it's a private repo or at the very least do the old school zip up the project folder every so often....
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u/throwawayduo186 May 08 '26
Vibe coding without source control, with a full hard disk. Claude didn’t delete anything. You fucked this one up.
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u/captain_racoon May 08 '26
so a few things when i see these posts.
didnt it ask you if you wanted to proceed? I have yet to come across any deletion, creation, modification, you name it where im not asked before it does it. It gets annoying but then i realize it can be a lot worse.
Did you run claude --dangerously-skip-permissions ?? Otherwise youll hit the above
Code Repos are your friend.
That is all.
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u/sithlawd0 May 08 '26
im gonna push back a little here and give my honest assessment. Git good would be the cleaner approach.
You are out of free messages until 12:50 AM.
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u/KeynoteBS May 08 '26
Lol, well the good news is if it was all AI coded, then just re-prompt from the best of your memory, and the rest will come automatically to you as you go through it again.
But, on a serious note: running your computer in a consistently "out of space" will severely degrade it's performance. Plan on having at least 50GB free. 10-20 will not cut it. Offload all your unused data, applications and anything that can be backed up automatically to the cloud (iCloud, etc.) just turn that on and let it optimize your storage space. And use Git/Github is free and tons of free integrations that help with all kinds of stuff.
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u/Independent-Leg-5923 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
Guys. The screenshot shows that he is using git, he just hadn't committed in a while. The amount of people saying "try git" is crazy. Tell me you didn't read the post without telling me.
Also, why are people assuming that he has a small disk? There is literally nothing in the post indicating that he doesn't have a 50 TB hard drive that ran out of space.
Is this really the state of reddit?
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u/frsguy May 08 '26
God I love post like these. Always makes me feel like im doing something right
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u/Motorcycle_Madness May 08 '26
Please take a fundamental cs course or something like a 12 hour crash course in freecodecamp so you can learn the paradigms and practices that have been proven to work over decades of software development.
It will make you a better prompt programmer, good luck!
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u/thunderfroggum May 08 '26
Claude design did a WHOLE bunch of design system work for me, when I was finally approaching satisfaction, it deleted the entire DS. It had no idea what happened, just told me it was gone and there was no way to recover it. Since it was Claude design, there wasn’t even a git repo to recover from. Burned my entire weekly token budget just to delete it all with no explanation. I’ve reported SO many Claude design bugs so far.
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u/Sirny May 08 '26
Imagine blaming claude for letting your computer fill up and still hammering it with writes 😂😂 OPs next project. An app to monitor disk space
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u/Great-Blackberry1627 May 08 '26
Looks like he gave anthropic an edge case here Commit your work gentleman.
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u/SleepyStew_ May 08 '26
Your "whole project" is one python file with no remote version control? Seems like a disaster waiting to happen
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u/Jolly_Entrance_9622 May 08 '26
I saw this post and just pushed my project to git again just to be safe
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u/haodocowsfly May 08 '26
claude almost deleted my entire project today too because of an environment variable being persisted from a pre-push hook that ran unit tests that used git… lucky i was using source control
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u/Entire-Conference813 May 09 '26
If you read what Claude did it didn't delete your whole project a save truncated it to 0 bytes due to you having no disks pace free. Maybe you could take some accountability as you are in control of Claude and also keep your machine in order, clean up your disk space.
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u/Polite_Jello_377 May 09 '26
So your disk is full, you didn't use version control and you are blaming Claude for this?
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u/LudoBruxao May 09 '26
That's why a software engineer would never be replaced by a vibe coder. Subscription costs $100 but thinking still free (yet).
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u/devs_machina May 09 '26
Let’s be VERY clear about one thing. Claude did not delete your project, poor prompt engineering deleted your entire project.
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u/extremepat May 09 '26
Title should be "I thought code lived in my vibe, not in my drive" Claude didn't delete your project brother, YOU never saved it 🙃🤣
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