been using ai daily for about a year now and kept falling into the trap of blaming the model when output got mediocre. switched between three or four different tools chasing better results before realizing the actual problem was almost always on my end. few things that made a bigger difference than any model upgrade ever did: keeping a running doc of context for ongoing projects instead of re-explaining everything each session. sounds obvious but most people don't do it and it's the single b...