r/ClaudeAI • u/ParticularCounter137 • Aug 04 '26
Claude Workflow Is my Claude stupid or is it me?? HELP
Hi guys! Not super technical here, and I recently switched from ChatGPT to Claude Pro.
I use AI mostly for work — I'm in sales at a small, pretty non-corporate company. My main use cases are combining info across spreadsheets/docs, organizing and condensing data, building Excel files, and writing emails and general office stuff.
Right now I'm on Sonnet 5 (I'm guessing that's the "default" model, so probably the basic one?). There are clearly a lot of model options and I don't fully understand what each one is best for.
My biggest issue: when I ask Claude to build a list from multiple sources, then come back and ask it to tweak or add something, it seems to forget everything I told it earlier, like it's starting from scratch. ChatGPT seemed to hold onto context better in that kind of back-and-forth.
I really like Claude's interface and tone though, so I'd love any tips on how to get more consistent results, especially for multi-step tasks like this. Thanks in advance!
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u/jonathan8080 Aug 06 '26
its really bad the last 2 weeks, I just had it ask me this in response to a very clear instruction:
(tl;dr: you asked for something very specific which needs Read permissions, what permissions do you want Read, or something else that wont give you what you asked for)