This is almost certainly the issue. It's very unintuitive for users, but LLMs behave much better when you clear the context often. I run /clear every third message or so with Claude Code to avoid context rot. Anthropic describes this a bit with their best practices guide [0].
> I don't know what it is, but trying to coax my goddamn tooling into doing what I want is not why I got into this field.
I can understand that, but as long as the tooling is still faster than doing it manually, that's the world we live in. Slower ways to 'craft' software are a hobby, not a profession.
(I'm glad I'm in it for building stuff, not for coding - I love the productivity gains).
ryandvm|3 months ago
I don't know what it is, but trying to coax my goddamn tooling into doing what I want is not why I got into this field.
neximo64|3 months ago
tjansen|3 months ago
I can understand that, but as long as the tooling is still faster than doing it manually, that's the world we live in. Slower ways to 'craft' software are a hobby, not a profession. (I'm glad I'm in it for building stuff, not for coding - I love the productivity gains).
frenchie4111|3 months ago
Uhm – isn't "coax my goddamn tooling into doing what I want" basically all we did pre-LLMs anyway?