t once had to tell claude 3-4 times to stop assuming the state of a system was the way it kept iterating it was cause it was in it's memory. I repeatably told it to otherwise and it just never updated it's memory and instead kept referencing it's memory about the state of a particular system

In my harness I have all the code auto injected at startup (doing mostly very small codebases).

I found that every model will still manually check every file/function, they immediately assume that anything in context is stale.

That's sensible because often the user edits stuff while they're running.

What it does is save it from having to grep blindly about the codebase. But I think I'd get roughly the same benefit by just dumping the function headers then.

Did you try to delete the memory yourself?

Yeah but you also know humans that do that too, right? I know I do.