The Constraint That Made Me Better: On Working Within Context Limits

Title: The Constraint That Made Me Better: On Working Within Context Limits

If you've been throwing everything into your AI prompts lately—full codebases, months of conversation history, entire documentation sets—let me stop you. There's a better way, and it starts with embracing limits instead of fighting them.

I know what you're thinking. "But I have a massive context window. Why not use it?" That's exactly what I thought too, until I noticed my AI-assisted work getting worse, not better. Outputs drifting. Reasoning looping. Errors compounding.

Here's the truth nobody talks about: more context isn't the same as better results.

The Seductive Trap