I think the most valuable part of this “e” lineup is the in-house developed modem. The power and security benefits are probably enormous.
Readit Newswps commented on Switch to Claude without starting over claude.com/import-memory... · Posted by u/doener
> it seems to cater to how the masses use these tools.
Are you suggesting that they should ignore the needs of the vast majority of their users?
I mean, of course they do, it would be worse otherwise
Well, the masses are wrong. See: insane amounts of compute wasted on “thank you”, “haha true”, “redo it”, etc. I think the UI should be designed to avoid misuse, and I think an ever growing distillation of your most common traits is not a good use of context length. If you want it, specify it. Maybe even hard limits on chat length, why are we 20 replies deep in a single chat? A user friendly option could be a single button that distills that chat down, and opens a new one with prebuilt instructions to continue the conversation. I’m no product designer though, just some thoughts.
wps commented on Switch to Claude without starting over claude.com/import-memory... · Posted by u/doener
If Claude could stay available I might consider it. Unfortunately right now, out of the big three, only Gemini has reliable uptime. As much as I dislike Google it's the only reliable option.
Gemini’s web UI and mobile app are horrible. Gemini outputs malformed links that lead BACK to gemini.google.com. There are constant bugs with the side panel not showing your chats or the current chat timing out for no reason. Also, the mobile app has an issue if your text input is too long where the entire text entry box lags, even to the point of locking up the entire app. Openrouter’s web ui runs circles around all the frontier lab UIs. I even prefer their PWA to any of these mobile apps.
wps commented on Switch to Claude without starting over claude.com/import-memory... · Posted by u/doener
I can try!
I currently use ChatGPT for random insights and discussions about a variety of topics. The memory is basically a grown context about me and my preferences and interests and ChatGPT uses it to tailor responses to my knowledge, so I could relate better.
This is for me far more natural and easier than either craft a default prompt preset or create each conversation individually, that would be way too much overhead to discuss random shower thoughts between real life stuff.
This is my use case and I discovered that this can be detrimental to specific questions and prompts and I see that it can be more beneficial to have careful written prompts each time. But my use case is really ad hoc usage without the time. At least for ChatGPT.
When coding, this fails fast. There regular context resets seem to be a more viable strategy.
I see what you mean, but I like having a clean slate even for those one off questions. I don’t want a differing answer to a philosophical inquiry just because the LLM remembers a prior position I’ve written about you know?
wps commented on Switch to Claude without starting over claude.com/import-memory... · Posted by u/doener
Sure, it's for those customers who don't have any idea what a "context window" is.
This seems to imply that customers assume by default that the LLM remembers their past chats? I feel like the UI makes it incredibly obvious it’s a clean slate every time? But then again people ask ridiculous meta questions all the time to these chatbots expecting a correct answer.
wps commented on Switch to Claude without starting over claude.com/import-memory... · Posted by u/doener
Could someone explain the appeal of account-wide memory to me? Anthropic’s marketing indicates that nothing bleeds over, but I’m just so protective of my context that I cannot imagine having even a majorly distilled version of my other chats and preferences having on weight on the output. As for certain preferences like code styling or response length, these are all fit for custom instructions, with more detailed things in Skills. Ultimately like many things in LLM web UX, it seems to cater to how the masses use these tools.
wps commented on The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text (2024) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36... · Posted by u/vinhnx
Detection methods only serve to stop the most blatant, low effort kind of LLM responses. The more pressing issue is that people are reading LLM output, and paraphrasing it for their assignments, reports, emails, etc. The obvious problem being that LLMs are often wrong, or miss nuance in unnoticeable ways for the laymen. The secondary problem is the general outsourcing of thinking and effort, even for tasks that you ought to give your focus to. BTW: from my anecdata, most university students are absolutely violating academic integrity with these tools, and have completely lost the ability to engage without them.
wps commented on Claude Code is a great Dad side project environment bitlog.com/2026/02/28/cla... · Posted by u/jakevoytko
This is a nice, refreshing post. Not everything has to be a big deal all the time. Also, there’s a LOT you can do at build time in terms of dynamic content for a simple static site. On my blog it actually renders the HN comments at the end of my post! I took proper care to make sure rapid iteration did not hit the API every refresh (comments are cached for an hour) and it’s also completely free. Obviously truly dynamic things will require a backend, but my needs are super minimal.
wps commented on MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO blog.vonng.com/en/db/mini... · Posted by u/zufallsheld
Also see Garage S3: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
Although it is a bit slow to load sometimes.