Anyone know how this will compare to Mem0 or Zep?
Claude Memory
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
create a instruction.md file with yaml like structure on top. put all the instructions you are giving repeatedly there. (eg: "a dev server is always running, just test your thing", "use uv", "never install anything outside of a venv") When you start a session, always emphasize this file as a holy bible to follow. Improves performance, and every few messages keep reminding. that yaml summary on top (see skills.md file…
This should not really be necessary and is more of a workaround for bad patterns / prompting in my opinion.
I agree it's a workaround. Ideally the model should follow instructions directly, or check before running another server to see if it's starting. Though training cannot cover every usecase and different devs work differently, so i guess its acceptable as long as its on track and can do the work.
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#223Seems the innovation of LLMs and these first movers is diminishing. Claude is still just chat with some better UI
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#224Anybody 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?
Claude Code became almost unusable a week ago with completely broken terminal flickering all the time and doing pointless things so you end up running out of weekly window for nothing. I guess OpenAI got it right to go slower with a Rust CLI. It lacks a lot of features but it's solid. And it is much better at automatically figuring out what tools you have to consume less tokens (e.g. ripgrep). A much better experienc…
Claude code uses rg by default in its default tools if it’s installed
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#225Am I the only one getting overwhelmed with all of these feature/product announcements? Feels like the noise to signal ratio is off.
It’s literally all just context engineering. Just different ways of attempting to give the model the information it needs to complete your task. This is not a significant change to your interaction model with Claude
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How big is your claude.md file? I see people complain about this but I have only seen it happen in projects with very long/complex or insufficient claude.md files. I put a lot of time into crafting that file by hand for each project because it's not something it will generate well on its own with /init.
I always just tag the relevant parts of the codebase manually with @ syntax and tell it create this, add unit tests, then format the code and make sure it compiles. There is nothing important enough in my opinion that I have felt the need to create an MD file
Where can I find docs about Claude @ syntax?
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That is odd, are you using small models with the temperature cranked up? I mean I'm not getting word for word the same answer but material differences are rare. All these rising benchmark scores come from increasingly consistent and correct answers. Perhaps you are stuck on the stochastic parrot fallacy.
You can nitpick the idea that this or that model does or does not return the same thing _every_ time, but "don't anthropomorphize the statistical model" is just correct. People forget just how much the human brain likes to find patterns even when no patterns exist, and that's how you end up with long threads of people sharing shamanistic chants dressed up as technology lol.
To be clear re my original comment, I've noticed that LLMs behave this way. I've also independently read that humans behave this way. But I don't necessarily believe that this one similarily means LLMs think like humans. I didn't mean to anthropomorphize the LLM, as one parent comment claims.
I just thought it was an interesting point that both LLMs and humans have this problem - makes it hard to avoid.
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#228Anyone know how this will compare to Mem0 or Zep?
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Both of you are missing a lot of use cases. Outside of HN, not everyone uses an LLM for programming. A lot of these people use it as a diary/journal that talks back or as a Walmart therapist.
Walmart therapist?
This is exactly why the two use cases need to be delineated.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always just tag the relevant parts of the codebase manually with @ syntax and tell it create this, add unit tests, then format the code and make sure it compiles. There is nothing important enough in my opinion that I have felt the need to create an MD file
Where can I find docs about Claude @ syntax?
I think the parent comment is simply referring to “@“-ing files in the chat.
So if you want CC to edit “file.R”, the prompt might look like:
“Fix the the function tagged with ‘TODO-bug’ in @file.R”
That file is then prioritized for the agent to evaluate.