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Love the idea and the approach, both. Intend to try it. Dislike READMEs written by or with the LLM. They're filled with tropes and absolutes, as if written by
by Terretta 8mo ago
Love the idea and the approach, both. Intend to try it.
Dislike READMEs written by or with the LLM.
They're filled with tropes and absolutes, as if written by a PdM to pitch his budget rather than for engineers needing to make it work.
At some point, reading these becomes like hearing a rhythm in daily life (riding subway, grinding espresso, typing in a cafe) and a rhythm-matched earwig inserts itself in your brain. Now you aren't hearing whatever made that rhythmic sound, but the unrelated earwig. Trying to think about your README or AskHN, instead thinking about LLM slop and confabulation and trust.
(Just like new account ChatEngineer's comment opening with “The [hard thing] is real.” which leaves the otherwise natural rest of comment more sus.)
Unsolicited opinion: Shouldn't be called total-recall, but curated-recall or selective-recall (prefer this one) or partial-recall or anything that doesn't confuse users or LLM as to (trope incoming, because where did they learn tropes anyway?): what it is (and isn't) …
- davegoldblatt 8mo agoroger that! good point on the readme, was aiming for velocity of shipping. will re work
- rco8786 8mo agoJust +1ing on the readme. It's clearly an LLM dump that repeats a lot of the same points multiple times and is missing a very, very important section: How to use Total Recall. It explains all of the concepts, but lacks a "quick start" section for someone who is ready to get up and running.
- DonHopkins 8mo agoI want an in-depth tutorial, so I can really wrap my head around it, because it blows my mind! How to Learn Total Recall in Two Weeks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KFH--_cdiI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KFH--_cdiI
- davegoldblatt 8mo agolol
- davegoldblatt 8mo agoJust pushed a rewritten README with a quickstart and usage walkthrough. Appreciate the nudge
- Bolwin 8mo agoGreat explanation for why AI slop is so distracting. It's actively hurting my ability to find high quality things, because it's a strong signal for low effort, and yet so many good projects are starting to use it on readmes. I have no idea if OPs project is good, but the idea is.
- davegoldblatt 8mo agojust updated, thanks for the feedback!
- davegoldblatt 8mo agoAlso, let me know if this lands: How It Works Think of it like a kitchen with four storage areas: Counter (CLAUDE.local.md): The stuff you reach for every day. Loads automatically, every session. Kept small on purpose, around a page of text. Pantry (memory/registers/): Organized by category. Your preferences, key decisions, project details, people you work with. Claude checks here when it needs something specific. Daily notebook (memory/daily/): Timestamped scratch notes from each day. Everything gets written here first. You decide later what's worth keeping permanently. Storage closet (memory/archive/): Old stuff that's done or outdated. Still searchable, but never loaded automatically. The key idea: notes hit the daily notebook first, then you promote the keepers. Claude doesn't get to decide on its own what's important enough to remember permanently. You do.