I pointed Claude to this blog post and asked it to update the CLAUDE.md file accordingly. Worked a charm!
And I am going to do nothing. Works fine.
The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
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#192Claude Code is deleting your context history on a timer. I wanted to build a searchable index of my context history, and tonight I discovered, "The default retention is roughly 30–45 days. Anything older gets removed automatically." https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage#data-retention This is nuts. Anthropic should not be deleting your data on your own device.
30 days is just a default, so your session data doesn’t fill your hard drive. It’s a configurable setting. You can make the retention as long as you want.
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#193Claude Code is deleting your context history on a timer. I wanted to build a searchable index of my context history, and tonight I discovered, "The default retention is roughly 30–45 days. Anything older gets removed automatically." https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage#data-retention This is nuts. Anthropic should not be deleting your data on your own device.
30 days is just a default, so your session data doesn’t fill your hard drive. It’s a configurable setting. You can make the retention as long as you want.
A new default. That wasn't the default a few months ago. Silently deleting your user's data is so stupid on so many levels. They have no idea what they're doing.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
The thing is that some people start to adopt certain "mannerisms" from their LLM of choice. It's not funny in and by itself, but it tends to be unnecessarily pompous words/expressions as well. Relevant: https://www.vice.com/en/article/youre-not-imagining-it-peopl...
I've seen this too and I get it. However, we should not assume that certain phrases are AI tells. And that was my point. There are all kinds of things I see described here as "AI slop" that are things I just do, and have done, for decades.
Not in isolation, but if a variety of telltales is observed it raises the likelihood of slop, cf Naive Bayes as first approximation
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#195> Now: Auto-memory Not Claude Code but I just had a task where it started referring another conversation that was complete nonsense and throwaway. I absolutely don't want things to get added to some memory behind my back. A big reason I use LLMs is because I can try out wild ideas and then just throw it away. I don't want those to pollute the context.
Claude Code gives you more control - you can disable auto-memory temporarily (nothing will be deleted), then enable it back; or you can setup a directory where auto-memory is disabled and do your throwaway there.
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#196We should design a specific language to make sure that we can encode the exact requirements that we want. Something that has a limited set of keywords that are explicit. Wait a minute...
This is getting tiring.
Code is not The Specification. It’s a specification of God knows what. Riddled with irrelevant, non-essential details wrapping The Problem - which in most cases will amount to something the size of a large pebble - in multiple layers of fur jackets, stored in boxes, which themselves are stored in multiple ridiculous moveable warehouse (if you’re lucky).
We have a standard for communication, it’s called regular bloody language. Code is an abomination that conflates the shadow with its source.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's language and speech patterns that seem designed to trick readers into believing that claims are correct, even when the claims aren't based on anything and are possibly wrong. It was rewarded for this during training for some reason. Alternative theory: The LLMs only way to "think" about abstract concepts is through language, and this leaks into into conversation it has with humans. But humans generally prefer to…
"There is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a depth of formless feeling untouched by thought." - Rilke Your assertion that we don't think in language is questionable. It runs counter to the lived experience of developing thoughts through writing ("writing isn't capturing thinking -- it is thinking"). I believe there is more to thought than language alone, but I also feel quite sure that language…
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Re: The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
#198Claude Code is deleting your context history on a timer. I wanted to build a searchable index of my context history, and tonight I discovered, "The default retention is roughly 30–45 days. Anything older gets removed automatically." https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage#data-retention This is nuts. Anthropic should not be deleting your data on your own device.
Holy shit, thanks for mentioning it, the frontier labs truly have no idea what they are doing when it comes to software quality.
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