Comment by simonw
6 hours ago
If you care enough about this you can stick a note in your own custom instructions about it.
If you allow ChatGPT to use its memory feature (I deliberately turn that off) and ask those kinds of questions enough it might even make a note about this itself.
Yeah that sounds obvious, but unfortunately my experience does not align with this (and I've heard from others similar). I am not using ChatGPT, but another tool within an IDE. I was excited about custom or "default" instructions, until it turned out they work maybe 50% of the time. So you end up repeating "make sure to include .github/custom.md" which is effectively the same crap. So we got ourselves a tool which adds to our cognitive load, great :)
Which tool and which model? Those make a significant difference here.
Well, for such a trivial feature, e.g. loading user settings it actually should not matter, as this too, is a problem we solved decades ago in many deterministic ways. But if it does, then we have an extremely fragile technology being promised as solution to all the humanitys problems. The tool we use is Github Copilot with the entire model offering. Out of which we mostly use Claude Sonnet 4. Since over the last several months they started entshittifying it though, as you are probably aware, we reverted from agent mode to mainly using it just as an annoying and verbose replacement for the entshittifed google search.