> The entire reason I keep a long-lived session around is because the context is hard-won — in term of tokens and my time. Silently degrading intelligence ought to be something you never do, but especially not for use-cases like this.

Hard agree, would like to see a response to this.

as a variation:

how does this help me as a customer? if i have to redo the context from scratch, i will pay both the high token cost again, but also pay my own time to fill it.

the cost of reloading the window didnt go away, it just went up even more

> I’m sorry to be harsh, but your engineering culture must change. There are some types of software you can yolo. This isn’t one of them. The downstream cost of stupid mistakes is way, way too high, and far too many entirely avoidable bugs — and poor design choices — are shipping to customers way too often.

I have to imagine this isn't helped by working somewhere where you effectively have infinite tokens and usage of the product that people are paying for, sometimes a lot.