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1019 points atgctg | 2 comments | 11 Dec 25 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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. getnormality ◴[12 Dec 25 06:32 UTC] No.46241428[source]▶
In my recent explorations [1] I noticed it got really stuck on the first thing I said in the chat, obsessively returning to it as a lens through which every new message had to be interpreted. Starting new sessions was very useful to get a fresh perspective. Like a human, an AI that works on a writing piece with you is too close to the work to see any flaw.

[1] https://renormalize.substack.com/p/on-renormalization

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2. ljlolel ◴[12 Dec 25 06:35 UTC] No.46241444[source]▶
Probably because the chat name is named after that first message