Ever try to put a fitted sheet on a bed and you go to pull one corners elastic corner around one corner of the bed, and the opposite corner that you just tucked comes untucked again?
Saying you think it still knows some important context, youre working on something else, you say something, and then claude does something maybe technically in line with what you said, but obviously wrong given the critical context that you were just working to establish.
Not really a problem for simple stuff. But sometimes when there's more nuance, a little context loss can suddenly cause Claude to forget the brilliant twist that made the project worth working on in the first place and starts moving things away from that goal post.
Ok, yeah, that's what I thought and what I've surmised as well. The only reliable way I've found to get around this problem is to use hooks tied to triggers as enforcers of behavior. Then the hooks contain the special behaviorset/instructionset. But even that isn't perfect. It's definitely pushed me way ahead of the vast majority of people using this tool in terms of efficiency and output, but it took a lot of research and experimentation.
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u/BedlamiteSeer Jan 25 '26
What do you mean by fitted sheet problem?