Interesting. Starting a new chat can be a useful workaround when ChatGPT becomes fixated on a particular idea and fails to shift focus, even when instructed to do so. In that context, retaining all conversations in memory could potentially make the issue worse?
timschmidt 4/12/2025||
Yup. It seems like they're chasing diminishing returns, attempting to elicit smarter responses by feeding in more context. But many times I don't want a contextual tool, I want a more or less deterministic one I can iterate with.
abracadaniel 4/12/2025||
Chats frequently turn into a tree for me. It offers N options and I explore one of them down the line until it doesn’t work. Trying to get it back to an earlier branch is usually impossible, so starting a new chat is often the only way to approach the other options.
Taters91 4/12/2025||
In learning and intelligence, forgetting is often just as importance as remembering. This idea of remembering everything is just another piece of spaghetti tossed at the wall.