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>It doesn’t remember that last week we made a small refactor to make future development easier, or that I abandoned a particular idea as a dead end Sometimes y
by AnotherGoodName 1y ago
>It doesn’t remember that last week we made a small refactor to make future development easier, or that I abandoned a particular idea as a dead end
Sometimes you need to keep the context and sometimes you need to reset it.
An example of needing to reset. Asking for X, later realizing you meant Y and having the LLM oscillates between them, on an unrelated request it adds X back in, removing Y. Etc.
Clearing the context solves the above. I currently do this by restarting the IDE in Intellij since there isn't a simple button to do it. It's a 100% required feature and knowing LLM contexts and managing them is going to be a basic part of working with LLMs in the future. Yet the concept of the need to do this hasn't quite sunk in yet. It's like the first cars not actually having brakes and the drivers and passengers used to get out and put their feet down. We're at that stage.
What we really need is detailed context history of the AI and a way to manage it well. "Forget i ever asked this prompt". "Keep this prompt in mind next time i restart the IDE" are both examples of extremely important and obvious functionality that just doesn't exist right now.
- jokethrowaway 1y agoClaude Code has md files with tech notes but it doesn't work too well. They still need a baby sitter.