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> Except it turned out I pointed it to the wrong file, and there wasn't a mistake in that file. That’s a fairly common error, on my part. I may have a wrong fi
by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
> Except it turned out I pointed it to the wrong file, and there wasn't a mistake in that file.
That’s a fairly common error, on my part. I may have a wrong file, selected in the Xcode Navigator, and the LLM accepts that, as the problematic file. In other cases, I’m just plain wrong, in my diagnosis. Maybe the error manifests in that file, but is caused, in another one. I have taken to giving the LLM as many involved files as possible, when asking for help.
I found that, as the LLM progressed through my project, learning more and more about it, it caught these errors, but early on, it ran with my wrong input, and gave bad advice.
It still, occasionally, gives bad advice, but that’s just because it was probably trained on bad code. I have found that it gives good advice, more often than not. It’s just incumbent on me, to treat its input as “advice,” and carefully consider it, before integrating it into my own work.
I have just upgraded my account. In order to do this, I had to create a new one, for billing purposes. This means that it needs to start over, learning the project. I am in the process of exporting from the previous account, but I’m not sure how well this will transfer the accumulated knowledge.
- DenisM 2mo ago> as the LLM progressed through my project, learning more and more about it… This means that it needs to start over, learning the project. I am in the process of exporting from the previous account, but I’m not sure how well this will transfer the accumulated knowledge LLMs don’t learn though. Are you talking about some sort of architecture.md file collection being built? This files should be just easy to copy?
- ChrisMarshallNY 2mo agoOh, no. The LLM definitely learns my project. It learns my coding and documentation style, and remembers files. Sometimes, that's a pain, as it remembers old versions of files, and disregards newer ones. That's actually a real advantage. Right now, I am getting it to compile a tutorial for the app. Since it's starting from scratch, I can't rely on it remembering much, so I have to "start from the beginning," and give it a lot of information that the other account already had.
- NateEag 2mo agoWhat tool are you using? I know Claude will maintain its own memory files in ~/.claude, unbidden. The actual LLM under the hood is static, though - it was trained once and will not self-modify.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2mo agoChatGPT, as a chat interface. I just switched from Plus to Pro. There may be a file, but I haven't seen it, and I know that the export process is non-trivial (it said it would "take several days").
- NateEag 2mo agoAh, got it. IIRC ChatGPT does use "memory" systems to maintain familiarity with a given chat's subject. I believe that's an important ingredient for creating AI psychosis - human and AI become slowly more unhinged together in a feedback loop until it finally spirals out of control.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2mo agoCould definitely see that happening
- DenisM 2mo agoI actually got repulsed by it, and now I’m avoiding ChatGPT. I can’t easily explain why.