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CLAUDE.md is read on session startup. If you're continually finding that it's being forgotten, maybe you're not starting fresh sessions often enough.
by simonw 11mo ago
CLAUDE.md is read on session startup.
If you're continually finding that it's being forgotten, maybe you're not starting fresh sessions often enough.
- hansmayer 11mo agoI should not have to fight tooling, especially the supposedly "intelligent" one. What's the point of it, if we have to always adapt to the tool, instead of the other way around?
- kfajdsl 11mo agoIt's a tool. The first time you used a shell you had to learn it. The first time you used a text editor you had to learn it. You can learn how to use it, or you can put it down if you think it doesn't bring you any benefit.
- hansmayer 11mo agoI am sorry but what do I have to learn? That the tool does not work as advertised? That sometimes it will work as advertised, sometimes not? That it will sometimes expose critical secrets as plain text and some other time suggest to solve a problem in a function by removing the function code completely? What are you even talking about, comparing to shell and text editors? These are still bloody deterministic tools. You learn how they work and the usage does not change unpredictably every day! How can you learn something that does not have predictable outputs?
- simonw 11mo agoYes, you have to learn those things. LLMs are hard to use. So are animals, but we've used dogs and falcons and truffle hunting pigs as tools for thousands of years. Non-deterministic tools are still tools, they just take a bunch more work to figure out.
- xn 11mo agoIt's like having Michael Jordan with dementia on your team. You start out mesmerized by how many points he can score, and then you get incredibly frustrated that he forgets he has to dribble and shoot into the correct hoop.
- hansmayer 11mo agoSpot on. Not to mention all the fouls and traveling the demented "all star" makes for your team, effectively negating any point gains.
- exasperaited 11mo ago> So are animals, but we've used dogs and falcons and truffle hunting pigs as tools for thousands of years. Dogs learn their jobs way faster, more consistently and more expressively than any AI tool. Trivially, dogs understand "good dog" and "bad dog" for example. Reinforcement learning with AI tooling clearly seems not to work.
- simonw 11mo ago> Dogs learn their jobs way faster, more consistently and more expressively than any AI tool. That doesn't match my experience with dogs or LLMs at all.
- hansmayer 11mo agoEver heard of service dogs? Or police dogs? Now tell me, when will LLMs ever be safe to be used as assistance to blind people? Or will the big tech at some point release some sloppy blind-people-tool based on LLMs and unleash the LLM-influencers like yourself to start gaslighting the users into thinking they were "not holding it right" ? For mission and life critical problems, I'll take a dog any day, thank you very much!
- simonw 11mo agoI've talked to a few people who are blind about vision LLMs and they're very, very positive about them. They fully understand their limitations. Users of accessibility technology are extremely good at understanding the precise capabilities of the tools they use - which reminds me that screenreaders themselves are a great example of unreliable tools due to the shockingly bad web apps that exist today. I've also discussed the analogy to service dogs with them, which they found very apt given how easily their assistive tool could be distracted by a nearby steak. The one thing people who use assistive technology do not appreciate is being told that they shouldn't try a technology out themselves because it's unreliable and hence unsafe for them to use!
- baq 11mo agoYou’ve asked the right questions and don’t want to find the answers. It’s on you.
- hansmayer 11mo agoWhats "on me" mate? Not being impressed with the 101st ToDo app vibe-coding hobbysts elatedly put together with the help of the statistical magic box?
- PunchyHamster 11mo agoeven shell remembers my commands...
- exasperaited 11mo agoI understand you're trying to be helpful but the number of "you're holding it wrong" things I read about this tool — any AI tool — just makes me wonder who vibe coders are really doing all this unpaid work for.