Yeah, anyone who’s used LLMs for a while would know that this conversation is a lost cause and the only option is to start fresh.

But, a common failure mode for those that are new to using LLMs, or use it very infrequently, is that they will try to salvage this conversation and continue it.

What they don’t understand is that this exchange has permanently rotted the context and will rear its head in ugly ways the longer the conversation goes.

I’ve found this happens with repos over time. Something convinces it that implementing the same bug over and over is a natural next step.

I’ve found keeping one session open and giving progressively less polite feedback when it makes that mistake it sometimes bumps it out of the local maxima.

Clearing the session doesn’t work because the poison fruit lives in the git checkout, not the session context.