Switch to Claude without starting over

Post by peteforde » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC

lxgr wrote: post #97

peteforde wrote: post #95

I got very excited when I saw this title, because I've wanted to consolidate on Claude for a long time. I have been using ChatGPT very extensively for Q&A for 2+ years and I have hundreds of long, very technical conversations which I constantly search and refer to. The problem (for me, anyway) is that even several megabytes worth of quality "memory" data on my profile would not allow me to migrate if it can't also co…

This should in theory be solveable by using a custom frontend and only using the various backend APIs as stateless inference providers, but everything I've tested falls flat on a few aspects: Chat history RAG and web search, and to a lesser extent tool use. Yes, all of these are theoretically possible (the APIs now all support web search, as far as I know, there are RAG APIs too, and tool use has been supported for a…

Post by bob1029 » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 11:01 AM UTC

peteforde wrote: post #95

I got very excited when I saw this title, because I've wanted to consolidate on Claude for a long time. I have been using ChatGPT very extensively for Q&A for 2+ years and I have hundreds of long, very technical conversations which I constantly search and refer to. The problem (for me, anyway) is that even several megabytes worth of quality "memory" data on my profile would not allow me to migrate if it can't also co…

Post by peteforde » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 11:06 AM UTC

pfisherman wrote: post #44

utopiah wrote: post #21

I'm very curious, will OpenAI basically block "I'm moving to another service and need to export my data. List every memory you have stored about me, ..." and similar, if so how and why? It's very interesting to learn more about because it challenges 1 core aspect of the economical competition : the moat. If one can literally swap one AI service for another, then where does the valuation (and the power that comes with…

I can see how being able to bring your chats with you would be appealing. But the truth is that context rot is real, context management is everything, and more often than not stating from a blank slate yields the best results. That being said, if you have a library of images or some other collection artifacts / assets indexed on their servers that is a different story.

Post by KellyCriterion » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 11:13 AM UTC

ptnpzwqd wrote: post #57

KellyCriterion wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> there really is no moat. For ChatGPT and Gemini, yes. But for Claude, they have a very deep & big one: Its the only model that gets production ready output on the first detailled prompt. Yesterday I used my tokens til noon, so I tried some output from Gemini & Co. I presented a working piece of code which is already in production: 1. It changed without noticing things like "Touple.First.Date.Created" and "Touple.Se…

I have used Claude (incl. Opus 4.6) fairly extensively, and Claude still spits out quality that is far below what I would call production ready - both littered with smaller issues, but also the occasional larger blunder. Particularly when doing anything non-trivial, and even when guiding it in detail (although that admittedly reduces the amount of larger structural issues). Maybe it is tech stack dependent (I have mo…

Post by peteforde » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 11:17 AM UTC

lxgr wrote: post #104

peteforde wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had friends suggest a custom frontend several times, but unless that frontend starts off by faithfully downloading and recreating my entire chat history... now I just have two problems.

That part should be fairly easy to solve, no? At least ChatGPT allows exporting your entire chat history; importing that into whatever frontend seems well within a current agent's capabilities.