Full disclosure up front: I am a founder, and this is about something I built and open-sourced. If that is not your thing, no hard feelings.
The problem was never the model
I run a small software company. Most of my day is a pile of small, different jobs: marketing, the website, a sales follow-up, a decision about a product. I started leaning on AI chat for all of it, and the model was genuinely good. That was never the problem.
The problem was that every new chat started from zero. I would re-explain the same context, the same positioning, the same constraints, over and over. Decisions I had made last week evaporated. The AI was smart, but it had amnesia, and I was the external hard drive.
Why I did not reach for an autonomous agent
