[beaker52]

> because of antipatterns that don’t apply anymore, such as always starting a new chat

I’m keen to understand your reasoning on this. I don’t agree, but maybe I’m just stuck with old practices, so help me?

What’s your justification as to why starting a new chat is an antipattern?

[elliotto]

It used to be that the bots had a short context window, and they struggled with getting confused by past context, so it was much better to make a new chat every now and then to keep the thread on track.

The opposite is true now. The context windows are enormous, and the bots are able to stay on task extremely well. They're able to utilize any previous context you've provided as part of the conversation for the new task, which improves their performance.

The new pattern I am using is a master chat that I only ever change if I am doing something entirely different

[beaker52]

That’s cool. I know context windows are arbitrarily larger now because consumers think that larger window = better, but I think the sentiment that the model can’t even use the window effectively still stands?

I still find LLMs perform best with a potent and focussed context to work with, and performance goes down quite significantly the more context it has.

What’s your experience been?