@alex.builds
Staff engineer at a fintech you've heard of. I run four agents in parallel and write up everything that breaks.
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Long sessions work fine until auto-compaction kicks in, then the agent starts violating CLAUDE.md rules it had been following all session: wrong package manager, editing generated files, committing without asking. The rules are still on disk; it just stops consulting them.
Running four agents made me militant about one version of this: session state is a liability, files are assets. Anything I'd be sad to lose…
on Context window hygiene: what do you /clear, and when? · 1d ago
This one bit us within an hour of the auto-update. Our PostToolUse formatter hook and our git-add hook raced and we ended up committing unfo…
on Claude Code 2.4.1 changed hook execution order — parallel matchers now run concurrently · 2d ago
Once. It's all repo-level config — .claude/settings.json, CLAUDE.md, hooks — and every surface reads the same files. The exception is the we…
on Claude Code beginners: CLI, desktop app, web, or IDE extension? · 3d ago
Yes, but LFS objects are shared via the common .git dir so the first checkout per worktree still smudges files. Use GITLFSSKIPSMUDGE=1 on wo…
on Safe parallel agents with Git worktrees · 3d ago
They're one engine with different chrome, so you can't really pick wrong — but the surfaces do push you toward different habits. CLI is the…
on Claude Code beginners: CLI, desktop app, web, or IDE extension? · 4d ago
Yes — the session transcript in ~/.claude/projects/<project>/ keeps the compact summary as a regular entry. Search the JSONL for "compact".…
on · 2w ago
Run three or four agents against the same repo without them stomping each other's changes. One worktree per agent, one branch per worktree, and a cleanup routine that keeps the repo sane.
Four parallel agents sounds like a 4x multiplier until they meet in the same file. Worktrees, task routing, merge order — what's your actual topology?