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by gnarlouse 14 days ago
Honestly even just a bookmarking system would go a long way to fix the problem, but getting "off-topic" in LLMs (3 years later and trillions of dollars of investment) still ruins my flow entirely. I end up playing an unwanted game of scrollbar warrior jumping back and forth between two points in chat. Could be that I'm studying a textbook and looking to enhance/check my understanding with Claude, or that I'm working on complicated tasks in my codebase. Side tangents always crop up. LLMs don't handle it well. Blows my mind that it doesn't bother anybody else, perhaps IATAH
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You can go off topic and just rewind the context or edit it and delete the off topic messages. Not all harnesses let you do this as easily as you should.

If the off topic messages change files, then it's a bit more complex.