> 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.
> I found Opus's 4.8 memories largely lacking value.
> I've been holding "retros" with the agent immediately after a session, and _those_ responses have been typically fantastic.
Similar thoughts, I used a skill instead to update a ai docs directory to provide context to subsequent sessions.
In any case, I'm moving coding tasks to Codex, Claude will be demoted to frontend design only. I do not entertain the idea of API billing or a 2nd Max account once the extra 50% Claude Code usage limits ends on 13 July [1].
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.
I just feel that any attempt of a service I use to summarize and analyze my interactions with it, whether it's the AI tool usage patterns or the music I listened to the most over the past year, makes me feel creepy and makes me want to use the service less. Imagine if your local grocery store came back to you saying that you ate this many chocolate bars over the year. Thanks, I know that you know that, but I don't want you to show me that you know that.
Isn't that something you determine yourself? I listen to a lot of heavy metal because I like it. I also wander around bandcamp and find stuff that isn't heavy metal, but enjoyable, so I buy it. My brain is my algorithm.
> It lets you easily track and visualize how you use Claude, and decide whether that time aligns with your goals.
i haven't yet encountered/achieved ai summarization technique nuanced enough to be called reflection and this seems basic too with no mention of behavioural patterns or workflow suitability
Using AI for specific tasks at work is definitionally not "integrating AI into your life."
You might use a badge to open a door at work but that doesn't mean your integrating badge-door access control systems into your daily life. It's a tool that you only use at work.
To be fair, the article doesn’t quite deliver on this promise. The examples are mostly focused on improving work-related workflows, so I guess that’s what they think “daily life” is.
When I have a good idea that I can hit what I want in a single query, I still use search engines directly a lot. But I have found AI is pretty decent at automating the process of making a vague search, picking up from the search better search terms, then making a couple of other wrong searches, then refining down to what I really want and potentially pulling together an answer from multiple sources. I know how to do all that, but the AI can do in a minute what may take me 15 minutes.
I'd say I also know I can still do it, but... as the search engines deteriorate it is getting somewhat harder to do this by hand than it used to be. I still do this by hand sometimes for cases where I want the exploration of a topic for myself, rather than a focused answer where I don't really care about what I learn along the way, and it's getting harder. I don't know that it'll converge at "zero value" but the search result pages seem like they're just... harder to use for this than they used to be, though it's hard to put my finger on how.
I did this but have (partly) reverted. I don't always want to read a wall of text that an AI regurgitates for search. The google AI snippet (1 short para) does seem better than the typical ChatGPT response.
I don't know why this sentiment isn't more common. LLMs are basically two things:
1. chatbots
2. automation for the process of googling something and copy-pasting the first result.
The only people I know who use it for more than those two things ask them to perform tasks they can't do reliably, don't check the output, and then they're just wrong most of the time. If they had just used it as slightly different google search they'd have been fine.
This product feels bad and sloppy, so I’ll give my hypothesis for why this was built:
At this point, Anthropic is likely having Claude itself propose and build features autonomously based on providing it with raw user feedback. This could be one example. Which is why it has an eerie sense of redundancy and pointlessness (“You mostly used Claude to automate work and home tasks”, etc.).
Speaking as a big proponent of Claude code in general, which I find to be revolutionary and useful - there is no value in that report. To be honest, the people who I know who like that report are the ones who are getting sycophantically gaslit by the models more than they should.
agreed, but IMO thats been true for most off-the-shelf skills I've seen. Instead I built my own "/meta" skill to improve my workflows, which I can use in targeted ways across my projects
I've integrated AI into my daily life by installing the Gemini voice app onto my phone, which I typically may use once a week, and adding Gemini and Claude bookmarks to my browser which I use all the time - but mostly Gemini since free usage is effectively unlimited.
That's all the integration I need. I don't need OpenClaw running 24x7 trying to hack it's way into my gmail.
It seems said "Your way to use Claude is wrong somehow, you should improve the way to use AI", instead of "Our tools have some wrong aspects and we will do our best to improve them".
It's actually quite normal to try to acquire skill at using tools. It's very normal for toolmakers to share insights and expertise in how best to use the tools they sell.
Remember that time grok told people not to use it for second opinions on their medical records? ...on second thought that might be an exception that proves the rule.
This looks like mindless data tourism to me. I don't see much distinction between this and something like Spotify's annual "wrapped" feature. The information theoretical equivalent of junk food.
I think there's a germ of a good idea here, but really this needs to be data that is presented in a way that encourages human thought and interpretation and not something claude predigests and interprets _for_ you. I found the whole tone as it's executed incredibly off-putting and cringe inducing.
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.
> I've been holding "retros" with the agent immediately after a session, and _those_ responses have been typically fantastic.
Similar thoughts, I used a skill instead to update a ai docs directory to provide context to subsequent sessions.
In any case, I'm moving coding tasks to Codex, Claude will be demoted to frontend design only. I do not entertain the idea of API billing or a 2nd Max account once the extra 50% Claude Code usage limits ends on 13 July [1].
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126429
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.
Isn't that something you determine yourself? I listen to a lot of heavy metal because I like it. I also wander around bandcamp and find stuff that isn't heavy metal, but enjoyable, so I buy it. My brain is my algorithm.
i haven't yet encountered/achieved ai summarization technique nuanced enough to be called reflection and this seems basic too with no mention of behavioural patterns or workflow suitability
I don't want to integrate AI into daily life.
You might use a badge to open a door at work but that doesn't mean your integrating badge-door access control systems into your daily life. It's a tool that you only use at work.
Aka "what is it good for?"
I don’t even know that Claude is inherently better or if it’s more the lack of ads.
I'd say I also know I can still do it, but... as the search engines deteriorate it is getting somewhat harder to do this by hand than it used to be. I still do this by hand sometimes for cases where I want the exploration of a topic for myself, rather than a focused answer where I don't really care about what I learn along the way, and it's getting harder. I don't know that it'll converge at "zero value" but the search result pages seem like they're just... harder to use for this than they used to be, though it's hard to put my finger on how.
Try noai.duckduckgo.com. Decent search results, actual sources, no risk of hallucination, no extreme energy cost.
At this point, Anthropic is likely having Claude itself propose and build features autonomously based on providing it with raw user feedback. This could be one example. Which is why it has an eerie sense of redundancy and pointlessness (“You mostly used Claude to automate work and home tasks”, etc.).
Speaking as a big proponent of Claude code in general, which I find to be revolutionary and useful - there is no value in that report. To be honest, the people who I know who like that report are the ones who are getting sycophantically gaslit by the models more than they should.
:) I went through some Claude documentation that apparently came with my job's paid subscription.
Besides some vague description of how to use the API, it was just fluff. For example there were exactly zero hints on how to do your prompts.
That's all the integration I need. I don't need OpenClaw running 24x7 trying to hack it's way into my gmail.
And a spolling one too.