I’ve used memory in Claude desktop for a while after MCP was supported. At first I liked it and was excited to see the new memories being created. Over time it suggests storing strange things to memories (an immaterial part of a prompt) and if I didn’t watch it like a hawk, it just gets really noisy and messy and made prompts less successful to accomplish my tasks so I ended up just disabling it.
It’s also worth mentioning that some folks attributed ChatGPT’s bout of extreme sycophancy to its memory feature. Not saying it isn’t useful, but it’s not a magical solution and will definitely affect Claude’s performance and not guaranteed that it’ll be for the better.
It’s also worth mentioning that some folks attributed ChatGPT’s bout of extreme sycophancy to its memory feature. Not saying it isn’t useful, but it’s not a magical solution and will definitely affect Claude’s performance and not guaranteed that it’ll be for the better.