Why Switching AI Feels Like Restarting the Project

Description and use

<p>You change the AI.</p> <p>Or you open a fresh session.</p> <p>The files are still there. The repository is intact. Nothing has been deleted.</p> <p>And yet the project somehow feels like it has gone back to day one.</p> <p>The new AI starts asking questions that were already settled. It re-checks work that was already verified. It proposes paths that were already rejected. Before it can continue, someone has to reconstruct the state of the project from chat history, commit history, notes, and memory.</p> <p>That is the failure mode I kept running into.</p> <p>I first thought the obvious exp

Problem

<p>You change the AI.</p> <p>Or you open a fresh session.</p> <p>The files are still there. The repository is intact. Nothing has been deleted.</p> <p>And yet the project somehow feels like it has gone back to day one.</p> <p>The new AI starts asking questions that were already settled. It re-checks work that was already verified. It proposes paths that were already rejected. Before it can continue, someone has to reconstruct the state of the project from chat history, commit history, notes, and memory.</p> <p>That is the failure mode I kept running into.</p> <p>I first thought the obvious exp

Outcome

<p>You change the AI.</p> <p>Or you open a fresh session.</p> <p>The files are still there. The repository is intact. Nothing has been deleted.</p> <p>And yet the project somehow feels like it has gone back to day one.</p> <p>The new AI starts asking questions that were already settled. It re-checks work that was already verified. It proposes paths that were already rejected. Before it can continue, someone has to reconstruct the state of the project from chat history, commit history, notes, and memory.</p> <p>That is the failure mode I kept running into.</p> <p>I first thought the obvious exp

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Why Switching AI Feels Like Restarting the Project

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