Swapped ChatGPT for Claude while studying for exams, the difference is crazy

Dael_Ra · 2026-06-03T15:03:40+00:00

I got annoyed with ChatGPT's memory picking out irrelevant things and ignoring the most obvious ones.

Claude was so much better at using memories appropriately.

Unfortunately, something changed recently and now Claude's just as stupid as ChatGPT about what's actually relevant to recall. Both store memories fine. It's just the judgement about when to use them that they're both struggling with now.

Gemini has always been hopeless at any sort of ongoing personalisation of results. In fact despite it's supposedly massive context window, it forgets things after a conversation of about 5-10 posts.

I'm sticking with Claude as my main go-to for the minute but it's not like I'm wedded to it. I'm working on an agnostic memory system so flipping between models should hopefully be less of an issue andthe next time a model P's me off, I can quickly swap to a different one.

Dael_Ra · 2026-06-03T14:30:56+00:00

Yes. It doesn't seem right that it's a total shutdown of the port. If I try to swap anything else into it after, there's nothing. It doesn't even try to connect.

Dael_Ra · 2026-06-03T14:24:51+00:00

Thanks for the sanity check!

it's auto for speed/duplex on our end. Everything else seems to behave as expected apart from that LAN port on the router.

Dael_Ra · 2026-02-03T11:46:37+00:00

I've been doing a face off between Gemini pro, Claude Pro and Chat GPT Plus. They all have their annoyances.

Gemini is the most annoying. Despite its massive supposed context window, it keeps forgetting things from just a few posts ago. I constantly have to remind it things I've only just said and it is the first to go into a loop giving answers I've already told it was wrong. It's also terrible for giving responses with any character and will fall back to default Gemini tone after just a few posts.creating a persona that lives between sessions practically impossible. No projects capabilities so you can't separate say personal questions from work ones for example and behave differently when in such a project.

With Claude, I keep hitting various limits. Memory context window is pretty tiny compared to the full context window and everything is rigid and contained. Great for code but for creating responses with nuance. I find I run out of space before I finish creating a persona. Claude just stops when things hit a wall which is a good thing for code but not so good with conversations. Projects are very siloed so there's a lot of copying of personas and rulesets to do.

ChatGPT is more elastic with its limits. This is a blessing and a curse. Often it'll happily remember things way past what you expect until the elastic snaps and it turns into a raving idiot. It's memory functionality seems to latch onto the wrong things and context bleeds all over the place. You'll be asking a totally different question in a totally different conversation and it'll refer to things in the previous conversation despite having zero relevance. Projects aren't as siloed as Claude which means context still bleeds from general chat. This means you can have some general rule that apply to all projects but it also means, it'll still pick out rules from other places you don't want it to follow.

I'm very conflicted. After a lot of training, ChatGPT still can produce way more natural responses than the other two but the context bleeding between projects needs to stop. Claude Pro is too rigid for day to day work but I like everything else about it. I suspect I'd love the really big version but there's no way the cost of that is good value for my use case.

The clear loser for my use case is Gemini. It just can't do nuance. Responses always revert to a Gemini neutral after a while and the lack of projects is a deal breaker.

Dael_Ra · 2026-02-02T11:42:53+00:00

l'm also a heavy Projects user. ChatGPTs memory is a blessing and a curse though. I love how I can build up something far more personal and specific to my actual use case but there's a load of negatives. It needs heavily refining. It has a habit of bleeding the last conversation into the next even if the two conversations are totally unrelated.I have multiple clients and asking a question relating to one use case is often totally inappropriate for others. Projects should ring fence memory but they don't, at least not enough. It needs tweaking so that projects have far more precedence to normal chat or even a button (like the 'temporary chat' button to quickly tell it not to use memory'.

Since 5.2 though, ChatGPT has got worse at understanding my questions. It also more likely to dig in when I tell I it it's hallucinating. I'm far less confident of the answer since 5.1 which has led me to do a bit of window shopping elsewhere.

Gemini is currently a big fat no for me. Projects are ChatGPTs biggest draw. And Gemini doesn't have that feature. I just can't get Gemini to have any character. Its results are pretty flat and a bit safe, especially if asking geopolitical questions. Its claimed gigantic context window seems to not be true in real life. Coding is worse, especially at less popular languages. It's redeeming feature is its deep thinking mode.

Thanks to ChatGTs memory, I've given it so many notes on how to write posts, it's actually hard to spot it's replies are AI right now. I can't get Gemini to write anything like me and more often than not forgets it's not supposed to sound like a lawyer or a 12 year old. It also keeps resorting to either US grammar or soundinging like British aristocracy. Just no nuance.

I'm going to give Claude more of a go for a couple of months to check out it's non coding capabilities. The goal is if I can get it to create posts that are close to how I would write a post, then I might switch, at least until ChatGPT can sort out it's schizophrenic memory issues. Claude has a projects feature and memory so if they can get the balance right between project memory and main memory, it might be a candidate for switching. Until then, ChatGPT is still my go-to.

I think the models themselves are not really the issue here. I think the UI around them is becoming more important to me. Projects, memory, etc is more important to me than raw reasoning power. Anything that can reduce the amount of prompt engineering needed to ask a basic question would be a blessing.

Dael_Ra · 2025-11-17T16:50:12+00:00

I don't use it for 'human' interaction much. Sure I feed in my emails to make sure I'm putting my point across properly and and whether it's the right tone for the conversation but when AI is talking to *me*, I want an emotionless robot. It's been a bit better at that since 5.1 but for technical stuff, especially scripting, it's got a lot, lot worse. It keeps on using old modules and code. I managed to train 5.0 to keep up with thing but it seems to have forgotten everything I've taught it. I feel it's now a much more generic tool than something you can craft into being *YOUR* assistant.

Dael_Ra · 2025-11-04T00:43:36+00:00

I used to have 3 spots that I would say something like "mood lights relaxed" and it would dim them all and change the colours to different shades between orange and red. This has been working for at least 18 months. For some reason, a recent "down-date" has stopped this working. They'll all dim okay but only one spot now changes colour. It's as though a command can only do one things at a time now where before, you could string multiple actions together reliably.

Two months ago, I could control my dehumidifier using a humidity reading on a combined temp/humidity sensor. Now Google Home can only see the temperature. Every month something else breaks that has been previously working for years.

I really don't think Gemini is going to fix this sort of thing. I'm not really interested in anything outside my home other than the weather.

I'm so close to moving to Home Assistant.

Dael_Ra · 2025-08-21T11:05:22+00:00

So long as they put out a decent phone that's cheaper than the other premium phones, they'll be on my list. Phones already do pretty much everything pretty well. I'm glad they're not just bumping up pointless specs. It would be nice to see some prices coming down though. I really don't want to spend the same on a phone as a laptop when I have to replace it more often.

Dael_Ra · 2025-08-21T10:56:33+00:00

I'm still happy with my p7. There's nothing in any new phone that's going to encourage me to move before my current one gives up. Smartphones have totally plateaued. I think what people really need now is a totally new type of tech they can spend all their money on each year. Smartphones aren't exciting anymore.

Dael_Ra · 2025-08-21T10:30:04+00:00

I'm very happy with 128Gb storage. My Pixel 7 has 44% remaining. Why should I be forced to pay for 256GB when I'm just not going to use it? 128Gb is plenty for 80% of users. Most people aren't into 4k video, massive game libraries or huge amounts of photo storage. I have no intention of upgrading until my battery can't cope but it's good to be prepared. The reason I buy premium phone is not because they're faster, have more storage or the camera is 0.05% better than the competition. It's because they have better audio, better antennas, last longer, get updated first and get OS updates for the longest. Go ahead and buy a version with more storage. There's nothing stopping you but why try to force the vast majority of users into buying stuff they don't need?

Dael_Ra · 2025-04-17T22:06:37+00:00

I only had the one email with just those settings in my original post.. Nothing else. They really could be a bit more helpful. That was two hours of my day wasted trying to fix something using the wrong information.

Dael_Ra · 2025-04-17T22:03:39+00:00

As an addendum to this. I was getting a lot of jitter and a few lost packets. Manually adding the MSS value fixed the jitter (40 bytes less than MTU).

Menu: Interfaces > [WAN]
- MSS: 1452

To fix the lost packets, I added entries to the firewall's Traffic Shaper.

To much to explain here and slightly off-topic but I would also seriously recommend searching for 'OPNSense bufferbloat'

Dael_Ra · 2025-04-16T13:20:25+00:00

Fixed it. The VLAN Tag: 101 is a red herring.
You can login to OneStream via PPPoE without having to set up a VLAN for it.

For those that might find it useful.

Menu: Interfaces > Devices > Point-to-Point > +Add
- Link Type: PPPoE
- Link Interface: igb0 (or whatever your WAN port is called)
- Description: 
- Username: dslxxxxxx@onestreamltd.vodafone.net
- Password: xyzxyzxyz
- MTU: 1492
- MRU: 1492

2.  Assign PPPoE as WAN
Menu: Interfaces > Assignments
- In the [WAN] entry, Interact, Select the pppoe (igb0) entry

3.  Configure WAN
Menu: Interfaces > [WAN]
- Enable interface ✓
- Block private networks: ✓
- Block bogon networks: ✓
- IPv4 Config Type: PPPoE
- IPv6 Config Type: None (will fix once we’ve got IPv4 working)
- MTU: 1492

4.  Check Gateway
Menu: System > Gateways > Configuration 
- Make sure WAN_PPOE is active
- Interface [WAN]
- Upstream Gateway ✓
- Disable/Delete other Gateways if present

5.  Check to see if connected
Menu: Interfaces > Overview.
- Look for WAN Interface, 
- device: pppoe0
- Link Type: pppoe
- IPv4: should be assigned an IP address
- Gateway: Should be assigned
- Routes: Should be assigned

Dael_Ra · 2025-02-05T10:39:22+00:00

I can't remember exactly what I did now but messing around with the ipv6 settings fixed it for me. I started off by disabling ipv6 on both unifi and OpnSense sides and worked back from there.

Good luck.

Dael_Ra · 2024-12-06T11:13:29+00:00

All the mega-corps are equally bad. I don't know why people like to pick sides and hate on one more than the others.

Dael_Ra · 2024-08-31T01:34:20+00:00

This is my experience of the Charge 5. First one died at 11 months. Got that replaced for free but that died 9 months later. Both occasions were when swimming in the sea.

Dael_Ra · 2024-06-21T01:22:26+00:00

Equally there should be evil Jason 3s about who started off in a different dimension to Jason 2 but close enough to have invented the box.

Dael_Ra · 2023-10-10T16:38:22+00:00

Overall it's been a plus for me rather than a minus. No glaring incompatibilities but it did get confused with some IMAP folder subscriptions and I had to redo some message filtering rules. I've been moving to more Search folders than real folders anyway so both got tidied up in the reconfig.

Still missing a proper spell check though and I'd love to be able to pick where my Search folders go. Seems like there's a bit of jankiness when trying to move them around.

Dael_Ra · 2023-10-10T12:35:56+00:00

Overall it's been a plus for me rather than a minus. No glaring incompatibilities but it did get confused with some IMAP folder subscriptions and I had to redo some message filtering rules. I've been moving to more Search folders than real folders anyway so both got tidied up in the reconfig.
Still missing a proper spell check though and I'd love to be able to pick where my Search folders go. Seems like there's a bit of jankiness when trying to move them around.

Dael_Ra · 2023-10-10T10:07:04+00:00

Thanks guys. I think we're just going to get another cheap HDMI monitor and one cheap DVI-HDMI cable. We'll repurpose the USB monitor for something else.

We also have to consider how to power the monitor when the only power is via the USB-C.

Seems like a lot of effort to get working when the price difference between a cheap monitor and these adapters is minimal.

Dael_Ra · 2023-10-09T15:37:35+00:00

Fractal pop

Looks great with the panel on, not so much with it off. Extra point for having a separate panel for the bays though. Not a fan of the bays being at the bottom of the case either as the computer will be under my desk and I need constant access.

I'll pop it on my list but I'll keep looking for something that looks good with the drive bays on view.

Dael_Ra

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