alt Hacker News> but it's not arguing because there's no record of it in the chat?
Yes? Arguing implies I have to convince someone to believe something. I don't think anyone would consider it winning an argument if you do so by causing amnesia.
My job is to get work done, not argue with an LLM, if it refuses twice, it is time for a /clear.
100% of the time, the issue is resolved after a /clear.
+1. It's the most effective way.
It often start going into circles when you have the chat open for medium-long, and starts getting even easily-verifiable tasks wrong, cutting corners, hallucinating APIs, things like that.
Cleaning the prompt and starting from scratch often does the trick.
Of course someone will arrive and say the problem is my CLAUDE.md or whatever it is.