Agreed, putting effort into my side of the role-play almost always improves the model's responses. The attention required to do that also makes it more likely

Agreed, putting effort into my side of the role-play almost always improves the model's responses. The attention required to do that also makes it more likely that I'll notice when the conversation first starts going off the rails: when it hits the phase transition (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01097 https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01097). It does still seem important to start new chats regularly, regardless of growing context sizes.