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"Forking" or "branching" (probably better received outside of SWEs) a conversation really ought to be a first class feature of ChatGPT et Al.

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It is in Google Gemini, which I really hate to say - but I've been using a lot more than GPT. I reckon I'll be cancelling my Pro if Gemini stays with this lead for my everyday workflows.

How? I use the Gemini web app and don't see it.

http://aistudio.google.com

AI Studio is borderline unusable for long conversations. I don't know what in the world it's doing but it sure looks like a catastrophic memory leak in the basic design.

I have been using it up to 100k tokens so far without issues. Never needed to go further than that. But much of that was in uploaded documents.

Also exists in LM Studio.

This was part of ChatGPT from pretty much the beginning, maybe not the initial version but few weeks later- don't recall exactly

This has been in ChatGPT from pretty early on? Just edit any prompt, it creates a new branch, and you can switch back and forth.

Blimey, I didn't realise the entire thread was saved when you edited a prompt. Very good! Mind you, it feels "unsafe". I'd like to be able to clone a thread.

You can toggle between different branches in both GPT and Claude.

It is!

It exists in Claude as a true branch - you can see the old threads - and in ChatGPT as without the history.

Edit a previous reply and hit “go” to see it in action.

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