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onraglanroad ◴[11 Dec 25 21:06 UTC] No.46237160[source]▶
I suppose this is as good a place as any to mention this. I've now met two different devs who complained about the weird responses from their LLM of choice, and it turned out they were using a single session for everything. From recipes for the night, presents for the wife and then into programming issues the next day.

Don't do that. The whole context is sent on queries to the LLM, so start a new chat for each topic. Or you'll start being told what your wife thinks about global variables and how to cook your Go.

I realise this sounds obvious to many people but it clearly wasn't to those guys so maybe it's not!

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1. wickedsight ◴[11 Dec 25 22:38 UTC] No.46238296[source]▶
This is why I love that ChatGPT added branching. Sometimes I end up going some random direction in a thread about some code and then I can go back and start a new branch from the part where the chat was still somewhat clean.

Also works really well when some of my questions may not have been worded correctly and ChatGPT has gone in a direction I don't want it to go. Branch, word my question better and get a better answer.