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Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by ekianjo »

rustyhancock wrote: post #36
Joeri wrote: post #13

I already switched to claude a while ago. Didn’t bring along any context, just switched subscriptions, walked away from chatgpt and haven’t touched it again. Turned out to be a non-event, there really is no moat. I switched not because I thought Claude was better at doing the things I want. I switched because I have come to believe OpenAI are a bad actor and I do not want to support them in any way. I’m pretty sure t…

I know this is necessarily a very unpopular opinion however. I think HN in particular as a crowd are very vulnerable to the halo effect and group think when it comes to Anthropic. Even being generous they are only very minimally a "better actor" than OpenAI. However, we are so enthralled by their product that we tend to let the view bleed over to their ethics. Saying we want out tools used in line with the US constit…

Let's not forget they also lobby to forbid models from China and pretend that distillation is stealing. but somehow just because they said no to two points the majority of HN folks think them as virtuous.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by ptnpzwqd »

KellyCriterion wrote: post #107
ptnpzwqd wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> C#/.NET same here :) > one-shots a larger/complex C# feature I can show you a timeseries data-renderer which was created with 1 initial very large prompt and then 3 following "change this and that" prompts. The file is around 5000 lines and everything works fine & exactly as specified.

Feel free to share it, would be very curious - ideally alongside the prompts.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by mavamaarten »

kdheiwns wrote: post #92
Joeri wrote: post #13

I already switched to claude a while ago. Didn’t bring along any context, just switched subscriptions, walked away from chatgpt and haven’t touched it again. Turned out to be a non-event, there really is no moat. I switched not because I thought Claude was better at doing the things I want. I switched because I have come to believe OpenAI are a bad actor and I do not want to support them in any way. I’m pretty sure t…

Yesterday was my first time trying it. One thing that felt a bit strange to me was that I asked it something and the response was just one paragraph. Which isn't bad or anything but it felt... strange? Like I always need to preface ChatGPT/gemini/whatever question with "Briefly, what is..." or it gives me enough fluff to fill a 5 page high school essay. But I didn't need to do that and just got an answer that was to…

In my limited experience, that's mostly since the 4.6 release. I noticed that with the same prompt, it answers much more briefly. A bit jarring indeed, but I prefer it. Less bs and filler, and less burning off electricity for nothing.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by CGamesPlay »

wps wrote: post #11
CGamesPlay wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, it's for those customers who don't have any idea what a "context window" is.

This seems to imply that customers assume by default that the LLM remembers their past chats? I feel like the UI makes it incredibly obvious it’s a clean slate every time? But then again people ask ridiculous meta questions all the time to these chatbots expecting a correct answer.

Yeah, but then they went and added "memories" and in particular automatic memory management, and now it isn't a clean slate each time. And that's exactly what this is importing: those automatically curated memories that make the chat bot "feel like" it knows you.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by randrus »

deaux wrote: post #68
tikotus wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had the same question a few days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162828 I didn't receive an answer besides "that's what people like", but I still can't think of (m)any situations where anyone would prefer it.

The reply about knowledge about their job and familt made me think. The only thing I can now think of is using it as a personal therapist. Or asking how to approach their kids. And they're a bit embarrassed about it, because it's still outside the Overton window -especially on HN - which is why they aren't sharing it. If someone has different usecases, please do prove me wrong! Maybe I just lack imagination.

I ask gpt a lot of questions about plants and gardening - I’m happy that it remembers where I live and understands the implications. I could remind it in every question, but this is convenient.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by samiv »

Joeri wrote: post #13

I already switched to claude a while ago. Didn’t bring along any context, just switched subscriptions, walked away from chatgpt and haven’t touched it again. Turned out to be a non-event, there really is no moat. I switched not because I thought Claude was better at doing the things I want. I switched because I have come to believe OpenAI are a bad actor and I do not want to support them in any way. I’m pretty sure t…

I did the same thing and cancelled my OpenAI plan today. Besides boycotting it for their latest grifting I also found it to not really produce much value in my use cases.

Moving back to doing this archaic thing called using my own brain to do my work. Shocking.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by nananana9 »

bruceyao1984 wrote: post #54

Being able to import context and preferences from other AI providers in one step saves a lot of time, especially for ongoing projects. It makes Claude feel seamless and continuity-friendly. Having this on all paid plans adds great value for heavy users.

Thank you, Claude.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by cedws »

7734128 wrote: post #65
wps wrote: post #2

Could someone explain the appeal of account-wide memory to me? Anthropic’s marketing indicates that nothing bleeds over, but I’m just so protective of my context that I cannot imagine having even a majorly distilled version of my other chats and preferences having on weight on the output. As for certain preferences like code styling or response length, these are all fit for custom instructions, with more detailed thi…

The few times I've switched over to chatGPT I've been dumbfounded by lines like "...since you already are using SQLite...", referring to projects from months ago. I know the "memory" function can be disabled, but I have a hard time seeing that it would ever really be useful.

Yeah for me it only ever polluted the context. Irrelevant information tends to oversteer the LLM and produce worse output.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by AlecSchueler »

jacquesm wrote: post #73
AlecSchueler wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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: One does often hear that where LLMs shine is with greenfield code generation but they all start to struggle working with pre-existing code. It could be that this wasn't a like for like com…

> One does often hear that where LLMs shine is with greenfield code generation but they all start to struggle working with pre-existing code. Don't we all?

Whether we do or not it's besides the point. The comparison was between Claude, which produced competent greenfield code, and Gemini which struggled with brownfield. The comparison is stacked in Claude's favour.
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