I almost gave up on my AI assistant — here’s how I fixed context handling

I’ve been building a personal AI assistant for the past few months. You know the kind: you chat with it, it remembers what you said, and it helps with tasks like summarizing emails, answering questions about your notes, or just being a sounding board. It started as a weekend project. A few Python scripts, an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint, and a simple loop in the terminal. I was smug. "Look, I built an AI!" But then things got ugly. The moment I started having longer conversations, the bot be...