How can I prevent my AI coding assistant from repeating fixed mistakes across sessions?
On Tuesday you told the assistant that the migration script must never touch the staging database. It agreed, rewrote the script, and the session ended. On Thursday, in a fresh session, it wrote the same migration against staging again, and the note where you explained why was sitting right there in its memory, retrieved alongside the old approach, with nothing to say which of the two had failed.…
On Tuesday, the AI coding assistant successfully rewrote a migration script, ensuring it did not touch a staging database. However, when the same request was made in a separate session on Thursday, the assistant repeated the same error. This issue is not uncommon, as it often leads users to search for solutions. The problem lies in whether the assistant learns from its mistakes across sessions.
The memory that stored the incorrect result remains in the system, and it can be retrieved alongside the corrected version, making it difficult for the model to distinguish between the two. The assistant must be explicitly told which outcome was bad to learn from the experience.
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