r/claude • u/blindexhibitionist • Feb 27 '26

Tips Finally Happened

So i hadnt seen anything on here posting about this so i wanted to make sure that people knew. I was working on a project trying to simplify a process that im working on as a database with a form that would talk back to it after search. Well we finally got the end and i downloaded the file. well i decided to ask one more question and the whole window disappeared along with the gs code. gone. hours of work gone. i havent been able to get back to where i was and now its pulling teeth to describe where we were etc. in the future ill definitly immediatly download the file and its a good learning lesson but good lord it was so insanely frustrating.

Edit: so I hadn’t turned memory on because I assumed that it automatically was just a feature. Also I got a GitHub account and also learned about cowork and I set up a file on my desktop.

40 Upvotes

88% Upvoted

112 comments sorted by

View all comments

15

u/RunEqual5761 Feb 27 '26

Always, always, always commit your work to your git folder. Just like gamers, SAVE EARLY-SAVE OFTEN.

Priorly, keep your past session terminal windows open as a reference to fall back on as you run out of context and move to a new agent window.

This way you have a fall back of every last action to give to Claude to recreate it, should something fail as a secondary line of defense on your project.

Hope this helps.🎯💯❤️

9

u/ul90 Feb 27 '26

This. Using AI coding tools without git is reckless.

2

u/blindexhibitionist Feb 27 '26

I’m brand new, so learning the lessons and trying to get better

2

u/logicrott Mar 01 '26

Please checkout pieces.app. and get GitHub for the code. Noob here too. Claude came up with memory a few days back. It will handle the whole submitting and keeping everything updated.

The context issue is real and documentation at all agreement or decision lock moments are key.

Do not try a huge project without understanding how to use the memory.

Noob myself.. learning by trying

2

u/sustilliano Mar 01 '26

I’ve been using Claude+ ChatGPT and have been having them edit and zip every edit because Ive asked Claude for and ChatGPT for something and watch the agent work on it write something amazing just to delete it an be like let’s do this as a single script

1

u/blindexhibitionist Mar 01 '26

Are you doing this in cowork and having them save to a projects file? What’s the workflow you use to do this?