We’ve been running a series of experiments using ChatGPT 5.4 integrated into a website chatbot across different environments: 🌐 a main website 🎯 Goal: simulate realistic user behavior and observe how the model responds over time. ⚙️ Test setup The chatbot is designed to (no self promo here, just context): 📌 answer strictly based on website content (RAG-like approach) Over time, we intentionally
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Anthropic now ships at least three different memory models inside the Claude product family, and they don't behave the same way. Claude.ai has a chat memory feature for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users that summarizes prior conversations and injects that summary into new chats. Claude Code has CLAUDE.md files plus a separate "auto memory" directory the model writes to itself, both loaded at se
Part 2 of 5 in The New Engineering Contract - what it means to lead engineers when AI is doing more of the coding. Stripe never skipped the boring stuff. They ship 1,300 AI PRs a week. Amazon skipped it. Their storefront went down for six hours. Kent Beck wrote the answer in Extreme Programming Explained in 1999. We read it. Then chose velocity anyway. A friend of mine leads engineering at a funde