A month of parallel Claude Code sessions: 8 failures that looked like success
KaaSInTheWild · reddit · 2026-09-10
After a month running multiple Claude Code sessions in parallel on one Mac, the author catalogs 8 silent failures—no errors, no red tests, no logs. Key lessons: filename-snapshot watchers can't see state rewrites of the same sessions/<pid>. file (add mtime; verify fallback paths actually diverge); 'ignore decreases' rules for ratelimits discard real resets—use resetsat as arbiter; idle sessions serve stale snapshots; hook-written files need atomic writes, exit traps, and an hour-based temp sweep to avoid killing live sessions; notifications must carry conclusions ('migration done, tests pass') or they're worthless at 6 sessions; and graceful HTTP fallbacks quietly hide failures. A hands-on engineering postmortem on failures that look exactly like normal operation.
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