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AI Agent as Fresh Consultant
Treat AI coding agents like consultants you hire for specific tasks - brief them thoroughly on context, give them discrete objectives, then start fresh for new projects
Decision Rule
When starting any new development task, create a new conversation and explicitly provide only the context relevant to that specific task, rather than continuing existing conversations
How It Works
Fresh context prevents confusion from irrelevant information, maintains focus on current objective, and leverages the AI's peak performance state rather than degraded long-conversation performance
Failure Modes
Continuing conversations indefinitely (append-only pattern)
Assuming AI remembers everything from previous context
Not explicitly providing necessary context for new tasks
Mixing unrelated tasks in single conversation thread
Example Decision
“Developer needs to add authentication and fix a CSS bug. Instead of asking AI to do both in one conversation, they create two separate chats: one focused entirely on authentication with relevant security context, another focused on CSS with relevant styling files and design requirements.”