in a now-deleted post on Reddit, a shocked developer said that Claude Code had just deleted 48,218 files that they had been working on in a live project tree.
So the source is an anonymous reddit post that got deleted…
Seems like trolling to me, like how would you have 48,000 files in a working tree without pushing to remote. I doubt even claudes that dumb and at some point during that seemingly huge vibe coding session it would’ve prompted him to setup a remote.
Maybe, but wouldn’t call those files lost since they’re just an npm install ... away from being restored. Though if it is real he could be so dumb that he doesn’t know that and just saw the top line 48,000 files number
So the source is an anonymous reddit post that got deleted…
Seems like trolling to me, like how would you have 48,000 files in a working tree without pushing to remote. I doubt even claudes that dumb and at some point during that seemingly huge vibe coding session it would’ve prompted him to setup a remote.
You don’t use NPM I assume.
Maybe, but wouldn’t call those files lost since they’re just an
npm install ...away from being restored. Though if it is real he could be so dumb that he doesn’t know that and just saw the top line 48,000 files numberMaybe it his project was just more genai slop