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Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by astrange »

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.

Gemini is terrible with personalization. It brings up everything in my bio nonstop no matter what the topic is.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by jspdown »

I've been using Claude for a little over a year, but the recent events with DoW are making me want to explore European alternatives. I'm willing to give Devstral 2 a try, but I'm not sure what to expect. In terms of tool calling and coding abilities, should I expect something closer to Sonnet 3.5 or to Sonnet 4.5?

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by joquarky »

Panoramix wrote: post #233
dimitri-vs wrote: post #195

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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)

Measuring the behavior of non-deterministic systems requires more than one sample.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by KellyCriterion »

allajfjwbwkwja wrote: post #216
KellyCriterion wrote: post #107

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> 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.

> The file is around 5000 lines Yep, this is another case of different standards for "production ready."

Caught, good one! :-))

++1

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by codechicago277 »

bluGill wrote: post #121
JauntyHatAngle wrote: post #45

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Lets generalise a bit more here - every company at any time could completely heel-turn and do awful things. Even my favourite private companies (e.g. Valve) have done things that I would consider evil. However, I would think I'm not alone in that I'm generally wanting to do good while also wanting convenience, I know that really every bit of consumption I do is probably negative in some ways, and there is no real "ap…

There are no universial morals. Anything - everything you think is evil some culture (possibly in history) thinks is good). I can't even think of something good that I'm confident everyone would agree is good. there are some people (companies are run by people) that are so bad I boycott them. Most bad I treat like society cannot work without accepting them anyway.

There’s no possibility or need for morality to be universal, and societies have improved their ethics many times throughout history. Your take is nihilistic and presupposes that moral progress isn’t possible, even though we’ve seen objective moral progress many times.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by Peaches4Rent »

peteforde wrote: post #98
deaux wrote: post #17

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Do you have example prompts where this would be usual? Why would you want an LLM to know your favorite type of cheese? Now that I say that, I guess if you use it for recipes then it's useful if it remembers things like dietary restrictions. And even then a project seems like the better option. I can't think of much else though so I'm still curious what you or others use it for.

ChatGPT knows what's in my bar and what types of base liquors I love and/or can't drink. It knows what fruit, syrups and mixes are in my fridge. It knows that my friend is allergic to mint. It knows that when I ask for recommendations, I tend to want a choice between spirit forward, tiki, martini and herbaceous. ChatGPT knows the broad strokes of the 3-4 main hardware projects I have on the go, and depending on the q…

It it just me who's getting freaked out by this?

I know it's a boiling frog situation, but seeing it spelt out feels so icky vs how google ads feel.

I really want my personality data deleted from big tech...

Sigh

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by Sammi »

cma wrote: post #231
Sammi wrote: post #86

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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

Why not just use a lightning to usb-c adapter? Because proprietary interfaces are for building monopolies and standards are for breaking them.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by duxup »

I don't know how complex everyone's setup is but I like starting over and exploring a bit to get a lay of the land / update preferences.

I think I redo my terminal the way I like it each new computer and so on.

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