Not a product pitch just research notes from talking to a lot of people.
I've been building in the AI coding tools space and wanted to understand one specific moment: your session hits a limit, gets deleted, or just goes stale. What do you actually do?
I posted in a bunch of developer communities and talked to people directly. A few things surprised me.
The power users aren't your best signal
Developers with sophisticated workflows custom handoff skills, AGENTS.md discipline, tmux harnesses — described the pain clearly but had already built their own fix. They're not looking for a tool. They're looking for a better version of what they made.
