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Claude Memory
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#102i rarely use memory, but some of my friends would like it
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#103I 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…
Strong agree. For every time that I'd get a better answer if the LLM had a bit more context on me (that I didn't think to provide, but it 'knew') there seems to be a multiple of that where the 'memory' was either actually confounding or possibly confounding the best response. I'm sure OpenAI and Antropic look at the data, and I'm sure it says that for new / unsophisticated users who don't know how to prompt, that thi…
> For every time that I'd get a better answer if the LLM had a bit more context on me
If you already know what a good answer is why use a LLM? If the answer is "it'll just write the same thing quicker than I would have", then why not just use it as an autocomplete feature?
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#104I'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…
I actually encountered this recently where it installed a new package via npm but I was using pnpm and when it used npm all sorts of things went haywire. It frustrates me to no end that it doesn't verify my environment every time...
I'm using Claude Code in VS Studio btw.
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#105It's not 100% clear to me if I can leave memory OFF for my regular chats but turn it ON for individual projects.
I don't want any memories from my general chats leaking through to my projects - in fact I don't want memories recorded from my general chats at all. I don't want project memories leaking to other projects or to my general chats.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Strong agree. For every time that I'd get a better answer if the LLM had a bit more context on me (that I didn't think to provide, but it 'knew') there seems to be a multiple of that where the 'memory' was either actually confounding or possibly confounding the best response. I'm sure OpenAI and Antropic look at the data, and I'm sure it says that for new / unsophisticated users who don't know how to prompt, that thi…
> For every time that I'd get a better answer if the LLM had a bit more context on me If you already know what a good answer is why use a LLM? If the answer is "it'll just write the same thing quicker than I would have", then why not just use it as an autocomplete feature?
That might be exactly how they're using it. A lot of my LLM use is really just having it write something I would have spent a long time typing out and making a few edits to it.
Once I get into stuff I haven't worked out how to do yet, the LLM often doesn't really know either unless I can work it out myself and explain it first.
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#107Anybody 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?
Anecdotally I'm using the superpowers[1] skills and am absolutely blown away by the quality increase. Working on a large python codebase shared by ~200 engineers for context, and have never been more stoked on claude code ouput. [1] https://github.com/obra/superpowers
This is actually super interesting. Is this "SDLC as code" equivalent of "infrastructure as code"?
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#108I work for a company in the air defense space, and ChatGPT's safety filter sometimes refuses to answer questions about enemy drones.
But as I warm up the ChatGPT memory, it learns to trust me and explains how to do drone attacks because it knows I'm trying to stop those attacks.
I'm excited to see Claude's implementation of memory.
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#109It's not 100% clear to me if I can leave memory OFF for my regular chats but turn it ON for individual projects. I don't want any memories from my general chats leaking through to my projects - in fact I don't want memories recorded from my general chats at all. I don't want project memories leaking to other projects or to my general chats.
I suspect that’s probably what they’ve built. For example:
all_memories:
Topic1: [{}…]
Topic2: [{}..]
Claude Memory, and others like it, are not magic on any level. One can easily write a memory layer with simple clear thinking - what to bucket, what to consolidate and summarize, what to reference, and what to pull in.
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#110"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…
I could have been more specific than "consistent set of ideas". The thing writes down a coherent identity for itself that it play-acts, actively telling the user it is a living entity. I think that's bad.
On the second point, I take you to be referring to the fact that the psychosis cases often seem to involve the discovery of allegedly really important meta-ideas that are actually gibberish. I think it is giving the gibberish too much credit to say that it is "aligned to the history of its constitution" just because it is about ideas and LLMs also involve... ideas. To me the explanation is that these concepts are so vacuous, you can say anything about them.