It does not maintain across multiple chats. It actually tells you it doesn't so you have to explain everything for each chat. And the project files are forgotten constantly as are custom instructions. I added a custom instruction to not provide snippets, only complete code. I had to add the instruction to every single message or it would forget. I specified "no snippets, no placeholder code" It often added placeholder code even when the request was in that direct message. It also gives the same solutions to code errors even when the solution failed. I spent most of my time trying to fix code errors that it said were fixed. if you're working on a more advanced project AI is not going to work.
It will improve over time, we hope. I guess the best way to use it for programming, is feeding him with small incremental tasks to achieve. I experienced AIs fail miserably if asked to build everything from a single prompt, while they instead work very well if you follow single steps. But in that case I suggest you to use AIs inside the code editor and do the step by step process, while using browser based for explaining or debugging, or learning. That worked best for me.
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It does not maintain across multiple chats. It actually tells you it doesn't so you have to explain everything for each chat. And the project files are forgotten constantly as are custom instructions. I added a custom instruction to not provide snippets, only complete code. I had to add the instruction to every single message or it would forget. I specified "no snippets, no placeholder code" It often added placeholder code even when the request was in that direct message. It also gives the same solutions to code errors even when the solution failed. I spent most of my time trying to fix code errors that it said were fixed. if you're working on a more advanced project AI is not going to work.
It will improve over time, we hope. I guess the best way to use it for programming, is feeding him with small incremental tasks to achieve. I experienced AIs fail miserably if asked to build everything from a single prompt, while they instead work very well if you follow single steps. But in that case I suggest you to use AIs inside the code editor and do the step by step process, while using browser based for explaining or debugging, or learning. That worked best for me.