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Comment by AndyNemmity

15 hours ago

There is certainly a level where at any time you could be building some abstraction that is no longer required in a month, or 3.

I feel that way too. I have a lot of these things.

But the reality is, it doesn't really happen that often in my actual experience. Everyone is very slow as a whole to understand what these things mean, so far you get quite a bit of time just with an improved, customized system of your own.

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ramoz  15 hours ago

My somewhat naive heuristic would be that memory abstractions are a complete mistep in terms of optimization. There is no "super claude mem" or "continual claude" until there actually is.

https://backnotprop.com/blog/50-first-dates-with-mr-meeseeks...

  • AndyNemmity  15 hours ago

    I tend to agree with you, however compacting has gotten much worse.

    So... it's tough. I think memory abstractions are generally a mistake, and generally not needed, however I also think that compacting has gotten so wrong recently that they are also required until Claude Code releases a version with improved compacting.

    But I don't do memory abstraction like this at all. I use skills to manage plans, and the plans are the memory abstraction.

    But that is more than memory. That is also about having a detailed set of things that must occur.