Long chats make AI worse, so start a fresh chat before the context window fills up.
- The context window limit is how much the AI can hold at once, and it is counted in tokens.
- As the window fills up, the quality of the answers drops quickly.
- For a small task, close the chat and start a new one.
- For a big project, ask for a handoff document, which is a text file that lets a new chat pick up where you left off.
- As a warning sign, tell Claude to start every message with your first name, and when it stops doing so, the window is filling up.
Example: Ask, "Create a handoff document that would allow a brand new chat with zero context to pick up exactly where we left off."