Productivity

Every AI session starts with a blank slate. The context window fills up. The session resets. Everything you built together — context, decisions, in-progress work — is gone. Unless you designed around it. The Wrong Way to Handle Session Resets The instinct is to manually copy-paste summaries. Or clear files and reload them. Or re-explain everything at the start of each conversation. That doesn’t scale. Manual handoffs miss things. They compress context incorrectly. And they put the cognitive burden on you — the human — instead of the system. ...

Hard lessons from months of building with AI — what nobody tells you before you start. AI didn’t make building my quant system easy. It made it possible. Those are different things. Here are the 10 mistakes I made — and kept making — until I learned better. 1. Long Conversations Break Down AI has a memory limit. The longer the conversation, the more it forgets. You think it remembers your system architecture from 30 messages ago. It doesn’t. It starts giving advice that contradicts what it said earlier — and you don’t realize why. ...