So I spent the better part of four months trying to use AI tools to help me work through a long writing project. Scripts, character notes, plot structure, the whole thing. And the experience taught me something that I think a lot of people run into but nobody really talks about honestly.
The context problem is real and it is brutal.
Every single session I would have to re-explain everything. Who the characters were. What had already happened. What the tone was supposed to be. What decisions I had made three weeks ago that still mattered. The AI had no memory of any of it and so every conversation started from zero. Which meant I was spending more time briefing the tool than actually using it.
And the weird thing is I started realizing the problem was not really the AI. The problem was me. I did not have everything organized well enough to even brief it properly. My notes were in five different places. My outline was three versions out of date. My character details were scattered across voice memos and random documents I had not opened in weeks.
The AI was just exposing a workflow problem I already had.
Once I fixed the organization side of things, getting everything into one place, keeping context updated, treating my notes as a living document, the AI actually became useful. Because I could give it real context instead of a vague summary of a summary.
Curious if anyone else hit this wall with AI writing tools. Was it a context problem or something else entirely?
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