yeah, it's curious. I sometimes ask it why it ignored what is explicitly in its memory and all it can do is apologize. I ask -- I'm using Claude with a 1M context, you have an explicit memory -- why do you ignore it and... the answer I get it "I don't know, I just didn't follow the instructions."
For it to follow the instructions I had for it. Call me naive and stupid for thinking the 1M context window on the brand new model would actually, y'know, work.
Just dealt with this last night with Claude repeatedly risking a full system crash by failing to ensure that the previous training run of a model ended before starting the next one.
It's a pretty strange issue, makes me feel like the 1M context model was actually a downgrade, but it's probably something weird about the state of its memory document. I wasn't even very deep into the context.
