Isn’t “Anthropic won’t fix it” a little sensational for barely month old issue with little activity(two upvotes, one of which is me), in backlog of 5k+? Agree that it’s a real issue that need fixing however

▲ ojura 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's around a dozen issues about this, the oldest one is from a bit under a year ago (though the author marked it closed... prematurely I'd say):

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4172

or this one from December, still open:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/9258

Some more fun facts about this:

- it is silent, not announced anywhere, and calls rm on your data

- setting the days to zero doesn't disable it, it immediately rm's ALL your chats

- even setting it to _something_ big doesn't prevent data loss if you launch Claude Code in some modalities (certain subagents, etc) that don't load this config key but perform deletion anyway (with the 30 day default)

	▲	preciousoo an hour ago \| parent [-]
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▲ john01dav 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They claim that they can automate development, so their backlog should really be ~0. /hj

▲ orphea 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

  Isn’t “Anthropic won’t fix it” a little sensational

It's editorializing and against HN guidelines either way.

▲ 8note 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"fix it" here is reverting their bad change

	▲	preciousoo 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I just noticed that it’s a config option. Weird that it’s so short though, I can understand why it may be needed for users who spawn hundreds of sessions a day