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Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Post by Razengan »

Aeolun wrote: post #42
Razengan wrote: post #27

I just want Anthropic to release a way to remove my payment method from Claude before the eventual data breach.

Don’t they use Stripe? You can remove your payment method at any time. But Anthropic doesn’t really have your info in the first place.

How? First I wanted to just use iOS In-App-Purchases like ChatGPT and Grok etc all support, but Anthropic has this "We're too special" syndrome and don't offer IAP so I had to sign in on the website (and guess what, iOS app supports Sign In With Apple but the website doesn't) and add my card… but no way to remove the card later.

Steam and others have figured it out, but Anthropic/Discord (who just had a breach like yesterday) still don't let you remove your payment info.

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Post by dingnuts »

hendersoon wrote: post #55
mirsadm wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are they not SOTA? They're all very similar with ChatGPT being the worst (for my use case anyway). Like adding lambdas and random c++ function calls into my vulkan shaders.

Gemini 2.5 pro is generally non-competitive with GPT-5-medium or Sonnet 4.5. But never fear, Gemini 3.0 is rumored to be coming out Tuesday.

based on what? LLM benchmarks are all bullshit, so this is based on... your gut?

Gemini outputs what I want with a similar regularity as the other bots.

I'm so tired of the religious thinking around these models. show me a measurement.

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Post by wrs »

qwertox wrote: post #36

I wish every instruction and response had a enable/disable checkbox so that I can disable parts of the conversation in such a way that it is excluded from the context. Let's say I submit or let it create a piece of code, and we're working on improving it. At some point I want to consider the piece of code to be significantly better that what I had initially, so all those initial interactions containing old code could…

The SolveIt tool [0] has a simple but brilliant feature I now want in all LLM tools: a fully editable transcript. In particular, you can edit the previous LLM responses. This lets you fix the lingering effect of a bad response without having to back up and redo the whole interaction.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455719

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Post by Curzel »

rmsaksida wrote: post #52
qwertox wrote: post #36

I wish every instruction and response had a enable/disable checkbox so that I can disable parts of the conversation in such a way that it is excluded from the context. Let's say I submit or let it create a piece of code, and we're working on improving it. At some point I want to consider the piece of code to be significantly better that what I had initially, so all those initial interactions containing old code could…

> I like how Google AI Studio allows one to delete sections and they are then no longer part of the context. Not possible in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, I think there one can only delete the last response. I have the same peeve. My assumption is the ability to freely edit context is seen as not intuitive for most users - LLM products want to keep the illusion of a classic chat UI where that kind of editing doesn't mak…

/compact does most of that, for me at least

/compact we will now work on x, discard y, keep z

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Post by barrenko »

iamblessed_ wrote: post #19
barrenko wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The pace is so fast, if you have FOMO you've already missed out most probably. If you're interested in LLM flavored RL, I'd suggest prime-rl (and their discord) community, hugging face RL courses with smol (you'll need pro and burn a couple of bucks), etc. etc.

Willing to burn few bucks here and there for the projects. Really need to get hands dirty here. I remember taking RL course from coursera during 2020 covid. I didn't have the chance to apply it in the problems I worked post covid. But I really want to start doing RL again. Interested in world models and simulation for RL.

If you're good on theory (meaning able to read theory), but interested in non-LLM stuff, pufferlib and it's programmer also seem quite accessible (if you haven't come across it already).

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Post by samtheprogram »

dingnuts wrote: post #62
hendersoon wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gemini 2.5 pro is generally non-competitive with GPT-5-medium or Sonnet 4.5. But never fear, Gemini 3.0 is rumored to be coming out Tuesday.

based on what? LLM benchmarks are all bullshit, so this is based on... your gut? Gemini outputs what I want with a similar regularity as the other bots. I'm so tired of the religious thinking around these models. show me a measurement.

> LLM benchmarks are all bullshit

> show me a measurement

Your comment encapsulates why we have religious thinking around models.

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Post by rapind »

james_marks wrote: post #49
qwertox wrote: post #36

I wish every instruction and response had a enable/disable checkbox so that I can disable parts of the conversation in such a way that it is excluded from the context. Let's say I submit or let it create a piece of code, and we're working on improving it. At some point I want to consider the piece of code to be significantly better that what I had initially, so all those initial interactions containing old code could…

I exit and restart CC all the time to get a “Fresh perspective on the universe as it now is”.

I do as well, with Codex though, but OP is asking for more fine grained control of what's in context and what can be thrown away.

You can simulate this of course by doing the reverse and maintaining explicit memory via a markdown files or w/e of what you want to keep in context. I could see wanting both, since a lot of the time it would be easier to just say "forget that last exploration we did" while still having it remember everything from before that. Think of it like an exploratory twig on a branch that you don't want to keep.

Ultimately I just adapt by making my tasks smaller, using git branches and committing often, writing plans to markdown, etc.

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Post by bdangubic »

Curzel wrote: post #66
rmsaksida wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I like how Google AI Studio allows one to delete sections and they are then no longer part of the context. Not possible in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, I think there one can only delete the last response. I have the same peeve. My assumption is the ability to freely edit context is seen as not intuitive for most users - LLM products want to keep the illusion of a classic chat UI where that kind of editing doesn't mak…

/compact does most of that, for me at least /compact we will now work on x, discard y, keep z

the trouble with compact is that no one really knows how it works and what it does. hence, for me at least, there is just no way I would ever allow my context to get there. you should seriously reconsider ever using compact (I mean this literally) - the quality of CC at that point is order of magnitute significantly worse that you are doing yourself significant disservice
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