Maybe this is just me using these tools badly, but I've noticed a pattern with ChatGPT and Claude.
I’ll have a really useful conversation about something like an idea, a plan, a bit of writing, a coding problem, whatever, and in the moment it feels like I’m making real progress.
Then a week later I vaguely remember that we talked about it, but I can’t remember where, or what the useful part actually was and what I was supposed to do next.
So I search, find a few old chats, open them… and now I’m scrolling through this massive thread trying to reconstruct why it mattered. It's exhausting and I feel I'm wasting time recollecting things.
So sometimes I start over, hoping that the AI itself will remember the details, adding to the waste of time and the frustration.
And the more ideas I develop the bigger this problem becomes. And it's only going to get worse.
I’ve started leaving myself a short note at the end of useful conversations, but I never remember to do it consistently.
Not sure if this is an actual problem or just the natural cost of using AI for messy thinking.
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