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Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by ossa-ma »

fastball wrote: post #104
ossa-ma wrote: post #53

There are a quadrillion startups (mem0, langmem, zep, supermemory), open source repos (claude-mem, beads), and tools that do this. My approach is literally just a top-level, local, git version controlled memory system with 3 commands: - /handoff - End of session, capture into an inbox.md - /sync - Route inbox.md to custom organised markdown files - /engineering (or /projects, /tasks, /research) - Load context into ne…

What is the purpose of a separate /handoff and /sync command? It seems like handoff could just write learnings straight to their final destinations without needing an .inbox.md buffer in-between.

I like to read and review what was captured in .inbox.md before it is committed and synced across my knowledge base. Allows me to catch mistakes, tweak preferences, add context and decide whether something is actually worth pushing.

I will typically make multiple '/handoff's per day as I use Claude code whereas I typically use '/sync' at the end of the day to organise them all at once.

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by johnnyfived »

gbnwl wrote: post #79

I'm not sure how many HN users frequent other places related to agentic coding like the subreddits of particular providers, but this has got to be the 1000th "ultimate memory system"/break-free-of-the-context-limit-tyranny! project I've seen, and like all other similar projects there's never any evidence or even attempt at measuring any metric of performance improved by it. Of course it's hard to measure such a thing…

I imagine HN, despite being full of experts and vet devs, also might have a prevalent attitude of looking down on using tools like MCP servers or agentic AI libraries for coding, which might be why something like this advertised seems novel rather than redundant.

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by AndyNemmity »

ok_dad wrote: post #115
AndyNemmity wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's completely fair, I also don't have much faith in that anymore. Very often, the people who make those claims have the most basic implementation that barely is one. I'm not sure if the problems you run into with using LLMs will be solved if you do it my way. My problems are solved doing it my way. If I heard more about your problems, I would have a specific answer to them. These are the solutions to where I have…

Damn, it really is all just vibes eh? Everyone just vibes their way to coding these days, no proof AI is actually doing anything for you. It's basically just how someone feels now: that's reality. In some sense, computers and digital things have now just become a part of reality, blending in by force.

I mean, it’s not vibes. I make real projects, and the failures of AI doing it force me to make fixes so that it only ever fails doing that thing once. Then it no longer fails to do that thing.

But the things I am doing might not be the things you are doing.

If you want proof, I intend to release a game to the App Store and steam soon. At that point you can judge if it built a thing adequately.

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by austinbaggio »

AndyNemmity wrote: post #112
austinbaggio wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like you've used quite a few. What programs are you expecting? Assuming you're talking about doing some inference on the data? Or optimizing for some RAG or something?

An example of a skill i gave, adding image generation to nano banana. another is one claude code ships with, using rip grep. Those are actual features. It's adding deterministic programs that the llm calls when it needs something.

Oh got it - tool use

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by jswny »

austinbaggio wrote: post #111
jswny wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also specifically instruct Claude how to use a globally git ignored scratch folder “tmp” in each repo. Curious what your approach is

You store your project context in an ignored tmp folder? Share more plz - what does it look like? What do you store?

Not memory, I just instruct it to freely experiment with temporary scripts and artifacts in a specific folder.

This helps it organize temporary things it does like debugging scripts and lets it (or me) reference/build on them later, without filling the context window. Nothing fancy, just a bit of organization that collects in a repo (Git ignored)

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by AndyNemmity »

austinbaggio wrote: post #124
AndyNemmity wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An example of a skill i gave, adding image generation to nano banana. another is one claude code ships with, using rip grep. Those are actual features. It's adding deterministic programs that the llm calls when it needs something.

Oh got it - tool use

Exactly. That adds actual value. Some of the 1000s of projects do this. Those pieces add value, if the tool adds value which also isn’t a given

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by gbnwl »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #119
gbnwl wrote: post #107

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Who has time to try this when there's this huge backlog here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/search/?q=memory

Have you tried any of those?

Yes, they haven't helped. Have you found one that works for you?

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by ok_dad »

AndyNemmity wrote: post #123
ok_dad wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Damn, it really is all just vibes eh? Everyone just vibes their way to coding these days, no proof AI is actually doing anything for you. It's basically just how someone feels now: that's reality. In some sense, computers and digital things have now just become a part of reality, blending in by force.

I mean, it’s not vibes. I make real projects, and the failures of AI doing it force me to make fixes so that it only ever fails doing that thing once. Then it no longer fails to do that thing. But the things I am doing might not be the things you are doing. If you want proof, I intend to release a game to the App Store and steam soon. At that point you can judge if it built a thing adequately.

No offense intended, I don't even know you at all, but I see people claim things like you did so often these days that I begin to question reality. These claims always have some big disclaimer, as yours does. I still don't know a single personal acquaintance who has claimed even a 2x improvement on general coding efficiency, not even 1.5x in general efficiency. Some of my coworkers say AI is good for this or that, but I literally just waste my time and money when I use it, I've never gotten good results or even adequate results to continue trying. I feel like I am taking crazy pills sometimes with all of the hype!

I hope you're just one of the ones who figured it out early and all the hype isn't fake bullshit. I'd much rather be proven wrong than for humanity to have wasted all this time and resources.

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by majormajor »

AndyNemmity wrote: post #59
majormajor wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just don't have much faith in "if you're doing it right the results will be magically better than what you get otherwise" anymore. Any single person saying "the problems you run into with using LLMs will be solved if you do it my way" has to really wow me if they want me to put in effort on their tips. I generally agree with your why of why you set up like that. I'm skeptical that it will get over the hump of where…

That's completely fair, I also don't have much faith in that anymore. Very often, the people who make those claims have the most basic implementation that barely is one. I'm not sure if the problems you run into with using LLMs will be solved if you do it my way. My problems are solved doing it my way. If I heard more about your problems, I would have a specific answer to them. These are the solutions to where I have…

That makes sense.

My basic problem is: "first-run" LLM agent output frequently does one or more of the following: fails to compile/run, fails existing test coverage, or fails manual verification. The first two steps have been pretty well automated by agents: inspect output, try to fix, re-run. IME this works really well for things like Python, less-well for things like certain Rust edge cases around lifetimes and such, or goroutine coordination, which require a different sort of reasoning than "typical" procedural programming.

But let's assume that the agents get even better at figuring out the deal with the more specialized languages/features and are able to iterate w/o interaction to fix things.

If the first-pass output still has issues, I still have concerns. They aren't "I'm not going to use these tools" concerns, because I also sometimes write bugs, and they can write the vast majority of code faster than I can.

But they are "I'm not gonna vibe-code my day job" concerns because the existence of trivially-catchable issues suggests that there's likely harder-to-catch issues that will need manual review to make sure (a) test coverage is sufficient, (b) the mental model being implemented is correct, (c) the outside world is interacted with correctly. And I still find bugs in these areas that I have to fix manually.

This all adds up to "these tools save me 20-30% of my time" (the first-draft coding) vs "these agents save me 90% of my time."

So I'm kinda at a plateau for a few months where it'll be hard to convince me to try new things to try to close that 20-30% -> 90% number.

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by levocardia »

JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #18

Is anyone else just completely overwhelmed with the number of things you _need_ for claude code? Agents, sub agents, skills, claud.md, agents.md, rules, hooks, etc. We use Cursor where I work and I find it a good medium for still being in control and knowing what is happening with all of the changes being reviewed in an IDE. Claude feels more like a black box, and one with so many options that it's just overwhelming,…

I just take a grug brain approach. I do touch CLAUDE.md and then just explain how the code/files/project spec work, like I'm writing a slack message or email to a really smart colleague, and then let it rip, always using biggest model with thinking on. If something consistently goes wrong I add more to CLAUDE.md or even better, have Claude Code just update CLAUDE.md itself with the new issue explained. I'm probably 3 months behind what you could get with absolute SOTA practices but it still works so well that I'm amazed and amused on a daily, if not hourly, basis.
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