People are doing this lots of different ways. Some run it in its own containers or in instances on the web. Some are using git worktrees. I use a worktree for anything large, but smaller stuff is just done in the local files.

Sloppy? Perhaps, but Claude has never made such a big mess that it has needed its work wiped.

> Sloppy? Perhaps, but Claude has never made such a big mess that it has needed its work wiped.

I think a key thing to point out to people here is that Claude's built in editing tools won't generally allow it to write to a file that has changed since last time it read it, so if it tries to write and gets an error it will tend to re-read the file, adjust its changes accordingly before trying again. I don't know how foolproof those tests are, because Claude can get creative with sed and cat to edit files, and of course if a change crosses file boundaries this might not avoid broken changes entirely. But generally - as you said - it seems good at avoiding big messes.