Every morning I opened the session and started over.

Not the work. The explaining.

Who the client was. What we decided last week. Why that one file is the way it is. The three constraints that are obvious to me and invisible to the tool.

I typed all of it again. Then again the next day.

For months I told myself the model was the problem. A smarter one would remember. A bigger context window would fix it. I was waiting for the tool to catch up to me.