| ▲ | AlexErrant 2 hours ago | |
> If you can't generate a report, it may be because you don’t have Memory turned on. Has anyone found success with memory and Claude Code? I found Opus's 4.8 memories largely lacking value. Memories are too verbose/specific/yet-generic for the value captured. Instead, I've been holding "retros" with the agent immediately after a session, and _those_ responses have been typically fantastic. It has ideas for coding changes, spots unmentioned small bugs, suggests invariants, principles to adopt, lint rules, tooling tweaks, skill-file updates, follow up work, all kinds of stuff. | ||
| ▲ | piva00 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Memories have mostly been detrimental to me, I have disabled it completely after many moments of frustration. In general Claude would decide to save irrelevant memories, or apply a memory that was lifted during work on a project to a completely different context where it wasn't relevant, or saved a memory from how to use a tool while I was experimenting with the toll and silently apply it breaking my workflow. I can't remember a single instance where it was helpful so I just disabled it to not have to deal with yet another cognitive overload. | ||
| ▲ | JamesSwift an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Self-directed memories have been awful. That said, I have had decent success in self-feedback-loop skills. I encapsulate a long process into a skill and the last step is to make changes as needed to the skill itself for things it ran into. I think the isolation of "this specific thing" is what makes it higher signal. Project or god-forbid global memory is just a recipe for hallucinations in my experience. | ||
| ▲ | 8cvor6j844qw_d6 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> I found Opus's 4.8 memories largely lacking value. Similar thoughts, I disabled memory for the web UI. > I've been holding "retros" with the agent immediately after a session, and _those_ responses have been typically fantastic. I used a skill instead to update a ai docs directory as needed. In any case, I'm moving coding tasks to Codex, Claude will be demoted to frontend design only. I will not entertain the idea of API billing/extra usage or a 2nd Max account once the extra 50% Claude Code usage limits ends on 13 July [1]. | ||