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Some kind of trying too hard. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [Andrej Karpathy](https://daily.dev/sources/andrejkarpathy) [Read on](https://api.daily.dev/r/tYgWRnRTa) Mar 25 • From x.com  Andrej Karpathy @andrejkarpathy One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard. Comment Bookmark Copy Share your thoughts Post Share this post [](https://daily.dev/sources/andrejkarpathy) [Andrej Karpathy](https://daily.dev/sources/andrejkarpathy "https://daily.dev/sources/andrejkarpathy") 53 Followers • 4 Upvotes #### Would you recommend this post? 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