Hey Anthropic, how about you use AGENTS.md for one thing.
+1, https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235 is probably the most upvoted github issue that i've seen.
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> I swear HN is just a bunch of fanboys full of NPC behavior. Why are you assuming these are real people and not NPCs? The amount of money flowing around AI is staggering . To believe that the AI companies aren't flooding all the social media zones with propaganda is disingenuous.
> To believe that the AI companies aren't flooding all the social media zones with propaganda is disingenuous.
Touché
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#63Hey Anthropic, how about you use AGENTS.md for one thing.
Just make a symlink of CLAUDE.md -> AGENTS.md I have seen quite a few open source projects do this. It works quite well. Another alternative is to create CLAUDE.md with the exact contents: "@AGENTS.md"
Big projects should have a lot of nested AGENTS.md files, it's inconvenient and they simply need to add support for the universal standard as everyone else has done rather than being a weird holdout like IE6.
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#64I 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…
Claude still doesn't have image generation?
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#65Could 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.
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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.
Can projects overlap? If not there’s general context information that’s often useful. My job, my kids and time preferences around those things, my preferred tech setup and way of working and types of tech I’m better at. Things I already have (home assistant, little nuc, etc). I can throw a random question and not have to add this kind of information or manage it.
I get that those are the things that go into memory. What I don't get is what kind of prompt your job and kids are useful information for. Especially on the regular.
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#67If Claude could stay available I might consider it. Unfortunately right now, out of the big three, only Gemini has reliable uptime. As much as I dislike Google it's the only reliable option.
I dont like the Gemini's personality. It acts like it know it all.
Don't all LLMS act like it know it all?
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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.
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.
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> there really is no moat. For ChatGPT and Gemini, yes. But for Claude, they have a very deep & big one: 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: 1. It changed without noticing things like "Touple.First.Date.Created" and "Touple.Se…
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…
Interesting - what kind of structural issues have you encountered?
Is these more related to the existing source code or is this a bad pattern thar you would never do regardless of the existing code?
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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.
Keep your user prefs minimal and use project memory instead: create a new project, it will only have access to your user prefs, everything else is fresh.
I'll have to try projects I guess, but I just want to sometimes ask questions without it bringing up shit I asked about in the past which isn't relevant to what I'm asking this time.