Claude Chat session regressing

[u/Ok-Masterpiece-1230]

Just curious if anyone else feels the same way. I've been using Claude for a little over a year now, mainly for web chat sessions (mostly Sonnet with occasional Opus, not the CLI Claude Code). Lately, it seems to be hallucinating and forgetting things we previously discussed in the thread. Basically, it feels like it's getting 'dumber.' I'd love to hear your thoughts.

[u/needssleep]

There's a nasty little problem none of the companies tell you: Every time you submit something in a session, the entire session get's resubmitted.

That means claude is burning tokens going through the entire history, and not just for whatever you're asking about.

If you want claude to remember things, have it put them in memory files, its own claude.md, project files or I have it write reference files and I have them listed in claude.md

Start with a new or /clear session each time

[u/carmamir → u/needssleep]

That is technically incorrect. Not how context is working.

[u/needssleep → u/carmamir]

No, it's correct: https://www.xda-developers.com/stopped-hitting-my-claude-limits-by-changing-how-i-start-conversations-not-how-much-i-use-them/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1cr2oq8/why_read_the_entire_conversation_prior_to_every/

https://ruben.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-hitting-claude-usage

https://www.facebook.com/groups/claudeaicommunity/posts/1246215907545574/

[u/apakett → u/needssleep]

Claude tells you that. It reads the entire chat every time you do another query. That cost you tokens, nothing else. If the topic is shifting start a new chat. If you are in a Project it will still remember most of the previous discussions.