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Notes on context, agents and compound thinking, from the people building BaseHalf.

• Context is the interface

  We typed “improve this” to an agent, and it could not tell what we meant. What it took to fix one word.

• Project management is context management

  An agent found a request that had fallen out of a plan, and the connections showed the step where it was lost.

• What compounds in thinking

  Most of what an AI writes for you should be thrown away. A few small pieces make the next round of work easier.

• Why AI work needs memory surfaces

  Our first design kept everything in an event log. Then a note said one thing and the log said another.