Claude's memory budget shrinks with each message in a conversation, causing it to forget details and contradict itself after several exchanges. Nick Perry's fix: ask Claude to write a summary, then paste it into a new chat to keep working without degradation.
Claude gets dumber the longer you talk to it, and there's only one thing that will save you when that happens. Here's why. See, every chat gives Claude a fixed amount of memory, and every message you send eats into it. So, for the first 10 or 20 messages, it's always on point. But after a few messages, it slowly forgets the names and details you already gave it. But that's not even the part that hurts you the most. Because once that memory's halfway full, it starts contradicting itself and repeating answers you already threw out. And if you, you use it after that, by the time it's nearly full, it just makes things up like it never knew you. So, right before it gets that heavy, you have Claude write a handoff note and paste it into a fresh chat.
