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Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by cma »

Sammi wrote: post #86
brikym wrote: post #5

Hey Anthropic, how about you use AGENTS.md for one thing.

Before this week I was sure Anthropic were actually just as soulless as OpenAi, just because they don't support open standards like AGENTS.md and /.agents/skills. They can so easily win the support of the open source crowd if they just support open standards like these. The /.agents/skills issue for claude code is here: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16345 Their automatic close bot will close it soo…

Why not just symlink

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by kelnos »

Handy-Man wrote: post #169
brikym wrote: post #5

Hey Anthropic, how about you use AGENTS.md for one thing.

Why would they? They were first with CLAUDE.md. Others could have adopted to that if they wanted. Don’t see a reason for Claude to change their approach.

Being a good citizen of the commons means not hard-coding things specific about your product as a standard. ChatGPT or Gemini using a file called "CLAUDE" doesn't make sense. The first mover doesn't just automatically win.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by Panoramix »

dimitri-vs wrote: post #195
xrd wrote: post #151

The prompt you can copy is this: I'm moving to another service and need to export my data. List every memory you have stored about me, as well as any context you've learned about me from past conversations. Output everything in a single code block so I can easily copy it. Format each entry as: [date saved, if available] - memory content. Make sure to cover all of the following — preserve my words verbatim where possi…

I think they already are. When I used the prompt with 5.2 it gives very concise and general info but if you use older models (5.1 instant or o3) you get a ton of detail.

I just tried 5.1 and got the exact same output as for 5.2 (actually I got slightly less info with 5.1)

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by AgentOrange1234 »

Sharlin wrote: post #147
kdheiwns wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Heh, a while ago I wondered why ChatGPT had started to reply tersely, almost laconically. Then I remembered that I had explicitly told it to be brief by default in the custom personality settings… I also noticed that there are now various sliders to control things like how many emojis or bulletpoint lists ChatGPT should use, which I though was amusing. Anyway, these tools can be customized to adopt just about any sty…

Hah. I remember some story about a chatbot that had been trained on slack conversations. You would ask it for an essay on whatever, and it would say "will do" or "I'll have it for you tomorrow." :)

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by boxedemp »

Oreb wrote: post #59
ben_w wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's been my experience too. I'm using the recent free trial of OpenAI Plus to vibe code, and from this I would say that if Claude Code is a junior with 1-3 years of experience, OpenAI's Codex is like a student coder.

Does it depend on what type of programming you do? Doing Swift/SwiftUI work, I have exactly the opposite experience. I’ve been using both recently, and I want to use Claude alone (especially after the last week’s events), but Codex is just so much faster and better.

I find it very much matters. I find Gemini better for pretty frontends, Claude opus for planning. Gemini and opus for code reviews. Codex is great when I want the LLM do follow instructions more strictly- good if you already have a detailed design.

Definitely depends on your use.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by debo_ »

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #217
kdheiwns wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I use Gemini all the time, but I have to say it's got verbal diarrhea and an EXTREMELY annoying trait of wanting to lead the conversation rather than just responding to what YOU want to do. At the end of every response Gemini will always suggest a "next step", in effect trying to 2nd guess where you want the conversation to go. I'd much rather have an AI that just did what it was asked, and let me decide what to ask…

Yes. Gemini is mimicking its creators: this is exactly how I experienced speaking to most Googlers.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by astrange »

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?

I'm better at pre-existing code, if only because empty text files give me writers block.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by thunky »

toss1 wrote: post #172
thunky wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Yet Anthropics stance is only two narrow restrictions. Really I think Anthropic should have a single restriction: to not assist with illegal or unconstitutional activities. If automated killings etc is illegal then it would be covered by that one rule. I don't think Anthropic should be in the business of deciding what is "evil".

If each of us individually or as corporations should not be in the business of deciding what it "evil", who should be in that business? Everyone SHOULD continuously consider, decide, and live by moral judgements and codes they internalize, and use to make choices in life. This aspect of life should NEVER be outsourced — of course, learn from and use codes others have developed and lived by — but ALWAYS consider deepl…

> If each of us individually or as corporations should not be in the business of deciding what it "evil", who should be in that business?

This is easy imo. Two methods:

1. The law. It should not be legal for the US Govt to murder people at will. If it is legal, then of course they'll use tools to make it easier. Maybe AI, maybe Clippy. If they can't use AI then they'll fall back to using some other way of doing it like they've already been doing for several years.

2. Voting. For representatives that actually represent us and have our interest in mind rather than their own corrupt interests. And voting with our wallet against companies that do legal but morally bankrupt things.

Of course we're failing both of these hard right now. But imo the answer is not to give up and let corporations make the rules.

In other words, if it were legal for a normal citizen to murder anyone they wanted, of course they'll use Google Maps to help them do that. We don't put restrictions on how people can use Google Maps. Instead we've made murder illegal. We should be doing the same thing here.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by visarga »

AllegedAlec wrote: post #8
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…

In online Claude I often use incognito mode precisely because I don't want results to be influenced by what we talked about earlier. It's getting rather annoying to be honest.

I'm switching from Claude Web to Claude Code. Local files give me memory I actually control, unlike Anthropic's implementation. CC doesn't carry state between sessions — you just put whatever project context it needs in a file.
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