Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I
by rpastuszak on Friday September 04, 2026 @02:25PM
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> the ability to search my old chats easily.
I’d try:
1 exporting my data (I imagine it’s common outside of GDPR?)
2 asking Claude to convert it to an easily digestible format :)
Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I
by chrisweekly on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:59PM
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Just use a proxy and log everything.
Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I
by epistasis on Friday September 04, 2026 @05:02PM
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A proxy only catches stuff going forward and it doesn't provide me chat search and chat viewing.
What I'm doing instead: syncing coding agent sessions to a central backup location, and for cloud LLM chat providers I'm occasionally exporting data.
Still need something to automate that syncing, and provide search and viewing.
Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I
by jjav on Saturday September 05, 2026 @02:15AM
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> search my old chats easily
Don't rely on chat history. Have it write and maintain summary files that you can import into different sessions, at least for anything important.
Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I
by unrented7977 on Saturday September 05, 2026 @08:19AM
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Claude by default deletes old chats after a few months. I installed a custom end-of-session hook that throws chat transcripts into a database so that any model can read any other model's chat history. Super easy
But Claude also makes it really hard to do that, so what am I even really paying for? Time to extract all my data, put it into a sqlite with FTS5 and make sure I never rely on the overly-opinionated, low-thinking PMs from these giant orgs again.
Of course, that "easy" step has lots of partial solutions like CTK (Conversation Toolkit) or MyChatArchive and I haven't found the perfect one yet, ideally it'd be something that dumped everything into Obsidian or an Obsidian-alike, but surely somebody is working on that? I'd pay $5/month for somebody to solve that problem for me, as long as I still owned the data...