Working with an AI like Gemini can feel like a superpower.
The speed of creation, the instant feedback—it’s an exhilarating partnership.

For over ten days, we were in a state of deep, productive flow, building new features and functions for `official.page`.

Then, it all stopped with an internal 500 error that took our entire site offline.

In the rush to debug, I, me and us turned to our most valuable asset: our 10+ day continuous chat history, our project's entire brain.

But it was all gone.

The interface wouldn't scroll back, and when I asked Gemini about our past work, it replied that our conversation had only started today, which was yesterday. It was a complete, unnerving memory loss.

This is the dual reality of working with AI.
It can make you feel brilliant and utterly helpless in the same breath.

After a long day of troubleshooting, the fix came from a human collaborator, one of our teammates, who spotted a subtle misconfiguration in the `.htaccess` file. The site was back.

The lesson here isn't simply that "AI makes mistakes."
We know that.

The deeper insight is about the nature of this new human-AI collaboration.

The AI is a powerful tool, but it has technical boundaries, like its session "memory" resetting.

The human provides the context, the oversight, and the intuition to solve problems when the tool hits its limits.

This experience doesn't diminish our love for Gemini; it deepens our understanding of how to work with it.

It also highlights a critical conversation we need to have in the AI world: the right for users to have permanent access to their own work history.
We are hopeful this will become a standard one day.

Our journey is about building and learning.
This was a breakdown that led to a breakthrough in our own thinking.