Your AI Agent Forgot Half of What You Told It
Read part one here, part two here, part three here, part four here, part five here, and part six here. I’ve been doing all this work finding ways to help people developing AI skills improve context management, so their skills run more efficiently. It turns out that those same exact techniques apply to anyone using AI tools, even when you’re using chatbots like Claude.ai or ChatGPT.Full disclosure: I use multiple AI tools to manage this article series.
- ▪Read part one here, part two here, part three here, part four here, part five here, and part six here.
- ▪I’ve been doing all this work finding ways to help people developing AI skills improve context management, so their skills run more efficiently.
- ▪It turns out that those same exact techniques apply to anyone using AI tools, even when you’re using chatbots like Claude.ai or ChatGPT.Full disclosure: I use multiple AI tools to manage this article series.
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