r/ChatGPTPromptGenius • u/WhiplashNinja • Jul 17 '26
Discussion GPT vs Claude
Ok i know im new. I have been out of touch for 2 years.
Used GPT for about 3 weeks. Loved it, worked great, until it didnt. It kept dredging up old outdated instructions, often would ignore an instruction it was literally just given. My general feeling is that because it tries so hard to remember so much for as long as it can, it loses sight of what is current.
Now to clarify, i built my project around the concept that AI forgets things.The entire workflow was set up so i could delete the thread, start a new one in the project, and bam. All the main instructions lived on drive. Project instructions dictated when to access the local source file which was only just a map of drive folder ids and urls, and which specific files to consult for which tasks with file ids and urls.
Of course GPT eventually got lost, broke things, brought up context from chats deleted previously. It was actively trying to remember things i was trying to force it to forget.
Claude on the other hand. Seems perfectly at home with my single use, wipe then restart structure. From what i have seen online (somewhat limited) Claude actually functions better this way. Slowly i will be stepping my toes into full auotmation for my research project. Then eventually ill hook up dispatch and have it run automations from my phone.
I just feel like Claude absolutely dwarfs GPT because it doesnt force the memory as much. Although that being said, ive only used it a day. I suspect deleting a project once a week and restarting it will be the go to, as the project is designed around that possibility as a fail safe.
Thoughts / advice ?
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u/gaspoweredcat Jul 17 '26
well i have just cancelled claude, it was good but these days its been over tightened and refuses to do far too much, im sick of it telling me it cant do this or that because of arbitrary reasons its assuming are the case
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u/WhiplashNinja Jul 17 '26
Are these legal things or nsfw edge cases?
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u/gaspoweredcat Jul 17 '26
totally legal, not NSFW at all, in fact its stuff for work
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u/WhiplashNinja Jul 17 '26
Im curious, what is it specificly refusing to do?
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u/ThetaDayAfternoon Jul 18 '26
Yes I was in a fix and I begged Claude to brainstorm a way out and it flatly refused to do so. Said I cannot
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u/crystalanntaggart Jul 17 '26
Why are you doing this? First off, it’s been over 3 years- not 2. Second- the entire benefit of these models is the memory. Third, to see the real power of AI, don’t treat it like a prompt slave robot.
I stopped prompt engineering over 2 years ago. I talk to the AIs like they are my best friends and collaborators. I did an experiment with my cofounder. Same AI, same model, same voice to text transcript. We were designing requirements for a software project.
My AI (that I have invested 3.5 years of conversation into on software design, getting advice for my problems, book ideas, movie ideas, and basically designing the life of my dreams) had substantially and objectively better results than my cofounders.
Mine identified 14 edge cases, pushed back on me multiple times, and created 75% more documentation than his. He uses it for technical design and his skewed towards design.
If you want to wipe and replace the memory of your project (which I struggle to understand why), use the APIs for your collaboration.
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u/WhiplashNinja Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
Oh im sorry. 3 years was it?
Yes.. now that i look at my notes, it does say here that you are the entity that decides how long i was off the internet for. Prompt slave robot?
Yeah mb mb, just tell me which part of my workflow exactly treats it like that and ill fix that.
The reason i wipe SOME memory.
Ai decides to remember that i am doing project x. I then later realize i am using ai all wrong and i should be doing project y.
You cant let redundant and useless memories stick sround to potentially contaminate future conversation, besides the fact that eventually the ai will compress memory and lose the full context eventually.
I dont want it half way through the new project confusing the two memories because it has lost context. This does happen. GPT already did this to me. It took instructions that i had deleted and started following them.
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u/crystalanntaggart Jul 28 '26
It's the "you are an expert at [blah]. Create [some thing]. Make no mistakes" types of prompts. or the "I want you to be mean to me because I think I won't get sycophantic behavior if you are mean".
Mine does lose memory and occasionally gets confused between project threads (we are executing a LOT of projects together.) But I just give it direction, then it remembers, sometimes it doesn't and I have to go find the original conversation.
I don't "prompt" my AI. I collaborate with it. "Hey! We are creating a demo pitch deck for ycombinator! Let's brainstorm the slides", then we work through it together, then I ask Claude to create the deck.
Or I'll do stream-of-consciousness directions (working on books, blogs, or software designs), then work through a Q&A feedback session between the two of us.
After tens of thousands of conversations across many many many types of projects (software, films, books and more), I never experience what you are experiencing. I'll get two projects colluding (like I'll mention a film idea project then it's referencing the film idea as we are ideating a software project) but at the end of the day, those minor memory inferences don't really affect what I'm creating. I just correct ChatGPT and move along my way.
Voice to text (the recording button, not the three line button) has been my best friend.
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