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Re: Claude Memory

#51

Post by cma »

amelius wrote: post #5

I'm not sure I would want this. Maybe it could work if the chatbot gives me a list of options before each chat, e.g. when I try to debug some ethernet issues: Please check below: [ ] you are using Ubuntu 18 [ ] your router is at 192.168.1.1 [ ] you prefer to use nmcli to configure your network [ ] your main ethernet interface is eth1 etc. Alternatively, it would be nice if I could say: Please remember that I prefer t…

skills like someone said, or make CLAUDE.md be something like this:

   Run ./CLAUDE_md.sh
Set auto approval for running it in config.

Then in CLAUDE_md.sh:

    cat CLAUDE_main.md
    cat CLAUDE_"$(hostname)".md
Or

    cat CLAUDE_main.md
    echo "bunch of instructions incorporating stuff from environment variables lsbrelease -a, etc."
Latter is a little harder to have lots of markdown formatting with the quote escapes and stuff.

Re: Claude Memory

#53

Post by chrisweekly »

NitpickLawyer wrote: post #41
dcre wrote: post #25

"Before this rollout, we ran extensive safety testing across sensitive wellbeing-related topics and edge cases—including whether memory could reinforce harmful patterns in conversations, lead to over-accommodation, and enable attempts to bypass our safeguards. Through this testing, we identified areas where Claude's responses needed refinement and made targeted adjustments to how memory functions. These iterations he…

One man's sycophancy is another's accuracy increase on a set of tasks. I always try to take whatever is mass reported by "normal" media with a grain of salt.

You're absolutely right.

Re: Claude Memory

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Post by seyyid235 »

mckn1ght wrote: post #37
cainxinth wrote: post #23

I don't use any of these type of LLM tools which basically amount to just a prompt you leave in place. They make it harder to refine my prompts and keep track of what is causing what in the outputs. I write very precise prompts every time. Also, I try not work out a problem over the course of several prompts back and forth. The first response is always the best and I try to one shot it every time. If I don't get what…

Plan mode is the extent of it for me. It’s essentially prompting to produce a prompt, which is then used to actually execute the inference to produce code changes. It’s really upped the quality of the output IME. But I don’t have any habits around using subagents or lots of CLAUDE.md files etc. I do have some custom commands.

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Re: Claude Memory

#56

Post by ivape »

cainxinth wrote: post #23

I don't use any of these type of LLM tools which basically amount to just a prompt you leave in place. They make it harder to refine my prompts and keep track of what is causing what in the outputs. I write very precise prompts every time. Also, I try not work out a problem over the course of several prompts back and forth. The first response is always the best and I try to one shot it every time. If I don't get what…

Regardless, whatever memory engines people come up with, it's not in anyone's interest to have the memory layer sitting on Anthropic or Open AIs server. The memory layer should exist locally, with these external servers acting as nothing else but LLM request fulfillment.

Now, we'll never be able to educate most of the world on why they should seek out tools that handle the memory layer locally, and these big companies know that (the same way they knew most of the world would not fight back against data collection), but that is the big education that needs to spread diligently.

To put it another way, some games save your game state locally, some save it in the cloud. It's not much of a personal concern with games because what the fuck are you really going to learn from my Skyrim sessions? But the save state for my LLM convos? Yeah, that will stay on my computer, thank you very much for your offer.

Re: Claude Memory

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Post by lukol »

Anybody else experiencing severe decline in Claude output quality since the introduction of "skills"?

Like Claude not being able to generate simple markdown text anymore and instead almost jumping into writing a script to produce a file of type X or Y - and then usually failing at that?

Re: Claude Memory

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Post by SkyPuncher »

lukol wrote: post #57

Anybody else experiencing severe decline in Claude output quality since the introduction of "skills"? Like Claude not being able to generate simple markdown text anymore and instead almost jumping into writing a script to produce a file of type X or Y - and then usually failing at that?

Yes. I notice on mobile it basically never writes artifacts correctly anymore.

Re: Claude Memory

#59

Post by labrador »

cainxinth wrote: post #23

I don't use any of these type of LLM tools which basically amount to just a prompt you leave in place. They make it harder to refine my prompts and keep track of what is causing what in the outputs. I write very precise prompts every time. Also, I try not work out a problem over the course of several prompts back and forth. The first response is always the best and I try to one shot it every time. If I don't get what…

> If I don't get what I want, I adjust the prompt and try again.

This feels like cheating to me. You try again until you get the answer you want. I prefer to have open ended conversations to surface ideas that I may not be be comfortable with because "the truth sometimes hurts" as they say.

Re: Claude Memory

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Post by Xmd5a »

dcre wrote: post #25

"Before this rollout, we ran extensive safety testing across sensitive wellbeing-related topics and edge cases—including whether memory could reinforce harmful patterns in conversations, lead to over-accommodation, and enable attempts to bypass our safeguards. Through this testing, we identified areas where Claude's responses needed refinement and made targeted adjustments to how memory functions. These iterations he…

A consistent set of ideas over time is something we strive for no? That this gives the illusion of interacting with a living entity is maybe something inevitable.

Also I'd like to stress that a lot of so-called AI-psychosis revolve around a consistent set of ideas describing how such a set would form, stabilize, collapse, etc ... in the first place. This extreme meta-circularity that manifests in the AI aligning it's modus operandi to the history of its constitution is precisely what constitutes the central argument as to why their AI is conscious for these people.

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