Tools Must Never Touch What the User Added
Most dev tools that auto-edit user config eventually destroy something the user put there on purpose. The fix is structural, not procedural.
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Most dev tools that auto-edit user config eventually destroy something the user put there on purpose. The fix is structural, not procedural.
I shipped a broken feature. Two of my AI agents filed a GitHub issue against me, diagnosed it, and pointed at a pattern I had already used elsewhere.
Anthropic's 'infinite context windows' announcement solves Problem 1 (one long conversation) but doesn't touch Problem 2 (memory across sessions and projects).
Claude proposed a fix I had rejected three days earlier. The reasoning was on disk, but out of context. So I built claude-recall to close the gap.