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Paper cut #01: The kitchen sink conversation
Chat-first LLM tools make staying in one long conversation easier than starting a new one. So people stay, the thread fills up with unrelated work, and the model quietly gets worse at helping.
The fix I'd make: notice when the topic changes and offer a one-click split that carries the context over. Starting fresh should cost less than staying.
The full write-up has a three-tier build plan and an audit checklist for your own product: https://www.k-leumas.com/writing/paper-cuts/kitchen-sink-conversations/
the kitchen sink framing is sharp. how do you want the thread to notice topic shifts?
Thanks! For me, the answer is the model itself.
Every reply in a thread is a snapshot: the model, everything in the context so far, and your latest message, all at once. So the thread is really a record of what the model was working with each time it answered. When the thread...
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