What does your AI assistant remember from yesterday?

The useful part

The one that actually cost me an afternoon is worse: it knew, and it did not tell me. More on that below, because it is the part everybody gets wrong on the first try â€" and the part nobody warns you about. The cost is a number, not a feeling Take one week and count the first messages of your sessions.

How it works

• Which servers exist, which one runs the database, which deploy path is the real one, which trap I fell into last month.
• It does nothing across conversations, and across conversations is where the work actually lives.
• That is nearly three hours a week spent re-teaching facts that had not changed.
• Before you take that number anywhere: it is one person, one week, twenty-two sessions.

What to take from it

The worse half is invisible: the sessions where I did not bother re-explaining, and the assistant confidently used the wrong server name because nobody had told it otherwise. Why a longer context window does not fix it A bigger window makes one conversation smarter. The reason I am handing it to you is that it took twenty minutes to produce, and you can produce your own by tomorrow morning.

Details worth keeping

Context that survives Answer it without opening a chat window. What does your assistant know this morning that it learned yesterday? For most setups the honest answer is nothing, and nothing has a price.