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0 pointselliotec7mo ago0 comments

Is it possible to view the prompt history? I’ve had extreme levels of productivity and would love to list out how I’ve been using it generally for an article like this but it would be incredibly impractical to log it on the side.

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orta7mo ago

With Claude Code at least, all of the chats you've had are stored in jsonl files on your computer in ~/.claude - I made a little TUI for exploring these in https://github.com/orta/claude-code-to-adium

Personally, I'm less sold on tracking prompts as being valuable both for production cases (imo if a human should read it, a human should have wrote/fully edited it applies to commits/PRs/docs etc) and for vibe cases where the prompts are more transitory

jaggederest7mo ago

I really want to record a live commentary of me working with claude. Maybe that's something you could think about.

I feel like the results I get are qualitatively superior to anything I've seen anyone I've worked with produce. The fact that it's a lot faster is just gravy on top.

globular-toast7mo ago

Just show the code you've produced.

jaggederest7mo ago

Right but that's like showing the compiled binary but not the source. With claude code prompt and config is everything.

globular-toast7mo ago

This is the saddest part of this whole thing for me. You consider the prompts and config to be the real source code, but those are just completely lost into the ether. Even if you saved the prompts you can't reproduce their effects.

Then there's the question of how do other developers contribute to the code. They don't have your prompts, they just have the code.

So, no, prompts are not source code, that's why I ask for people to just show the code they are producing and nobody ever does.

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orta7mo ago

jaggederest7mo ago

I really want to record a live commentary of me working with claude. Maybe that's something you could think about.

I feel like the results I get are qualitatively superior to anything I've seen anyone I've worked with produce. The fact that it's a lot faster is just gravy on top.

globular-toast7mo ago

Just show the code you've produced.

jaggederest7mo ago

Right but that's like showing the compiled binary but not the source. With claude code prompt and config is everything.

globular-toast7mo ago

Then there's the question of how do other developers contribute to the code. They don't have your prompts, they just have the code.

So, no, prompts are not source code, that's why I ask for people to just show the code they are producing and nobody ever does.

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