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The AI deleted my container state. Four days of work were in it.

The Cowork integration appears to have deleted his AI container state. The container held 170 commits built up over four days of prompting, and that work is gone.

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How it works

  1. Works inside an AI container for four days, building up 170 commits
  2. The Cowork integration appears to delete the container state

Why it’s worth knowing

An integration that was meant to help him work deleted the container his last four days of work lived in.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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