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As a major, major fan of 3.5, it’s clear Anthropic have missed a step or two in the last six months. And the rate limits, holy cow, even the API randomly drops out frighteningly often. I bounce back and forth a little on my OAI sub, right now I have one because I’ve been doing laying around with the deep research a bit, and voice is handy on car rides or in the kitchen. I almost feel like o1 was better than o3 but needs more testing by me to be sure.
I need to spend more time with Google. Have you used much the feature where you like highlight and edit and interact with passages of your or its old responses? I didn’t quite grasp the mini demo they did so I’m not sure if that’s a genuinely new useful interaction mode or not.
I've occasionally edited my own responses, but never the LLMs. I wonder if that would be helpful for jailbreaks. At some points, when the context window wasn't enough, I'd delete unnecessary responses to clear up space, but with a 1M window now? Never necessary.
The ability to fork chats is clutch, I can tell you. I miss it on every other platform.
Do you usually fork because you're unsatisfied with the response, didn't want to clutter the context, felt you had a natural off-topic you wanted to explore somewhat sandboxed, or something else? I'm trying to imaging the typical use case where it would feel so essential.
Let's say I have a difficult task that needs a lot of comms with Gemini to get it on the same page. Then forks allow for easily throwing that into the context for a variant of that task. Or simply A/B testing.
The first time I made use of forks, it was when I was generating images with Flash, and got it dialed in. I then forked it so as to try alternative prompts and the effects of different details, with the easy ability to jump back and forth.
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