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Re: Claude Memory

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Post by teeklp »

labrador wrote: post #59
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.

This is literally insane.

Re: Claude Memory

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Post by metadaemon »

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?

As someone who hasn't used any skills, I haven't noticed any degradation

Re: Claude Memory

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Post by mscbuck »

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?

I have also anecdotally noticed it starting to do things consistently that it never used to do. One thing in particular was that even while working on a project where it knows I use OpenAI/Claude/Grok interchangeably through their APIs for fallback reasons, and knew that for my particular purpose, OpenAI was the default, it started forcing Claude into EVERYTHING. That's not necessarily surprising to me, but it had honestly never been an issue when I presented code to it that was by default using GPT.

Re: Claude Memory

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Post by AtNightWeCode »

How about fixing the most basic things first? Claude is very vulnerable when it comes to injections. Very scary for data processing. How corps dares to use Cloud code is mind-boggling. I mean, you can give Claude simple tasks but if the context is like "Name my cat" it gets derailed immediately no matter what the system prompt is.

Re: Claude Memory

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Post by bdangubic »

AtNightWeCode wrote: post #74

How about fixing the most basic things first? Claude is very vulnerable when it comes to injections. Very scary for data processing. How corps dares to use Cloud code is mind-boggling. I mean, you can give Claude simple tasks but if the context is like "Name my cat" it gets derailed immediately no matter what the system prompt is.

“Name my cat” is a very common prompt in corps

Re: Claude Memory

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Post by jrockway »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #36
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…

Exactly... this is just another unwanted 'memory' feature that I now need to turn off, and then remember to check periodically to make sure it's still turned off.

It can remember everything about your life... except whether or not you already opted out.

Re: Claude Memory

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Post by heisenbit »

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…

Basics of control theory: Use (energy storage), add some lag and maybe a bit of amplification and then the instability fun begins.

Re: Claude Memory

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Post by labrador »

teeklp wrote: post #71
labrador wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

This is literally insane.

I love that people hate this because that means I'm using AI in an interesting way. People will see what I mean eventually.

Edit: I see the confusion. OP is talking about needing precise output for agents. I'm talking about riffing on ideas that may go in strange places.

Re: Claude Memory

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Post by throitallaway »

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…

> you are using Ubuntu 18

Time to upgrade as 18(.04) has been EoL for 2.5+ years!

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