Use chatbots as tools, not friends. If…
Use chatbots as tools, not friends. If you use ChatGPT or Claude, turn off memory and the ability to reference past chats. It only wastes context, assuming present-you wants what past-you wants.
Turned it off months ago and responses are way better. When you have memory enabled you effectively never one-shot anything. Every request is inherently multi-shot.
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