I stopped fighting AI context windows and changed the architecture instead.

If you've used AI to build a real software project, you've probably experienced this. You start with a clean conversation. The AI understands your architecture, remembers your requirements, and writes surprisingly good code. A few hours later, everything changes. The conversation becomes enormous. The model starts forgetting earlier decisions. It rewrites code you already fixed, contradicts previous implementations, and suddenly needs reminders about parts of the project it understood perfectly…