I Lost Three Hours to a Blank Slate—So I Made “Forgetting” Structurally Impossible (Series Part 12)

The author describes building a mandatory boot sequence that forces AI sessions to recover state before starting work, eliminating the costly 'blank slate' problem. Instead of stuffing static context into prompts (which rots and burns tokens), they decomposed continuity into three layers—task state via a queryable database ledger, working state for mid-thought decisions, and infrastructure state—each consulted in order at session start.