AI
The Check That Stopped My AI's Filing Was Right
By Khai Tran · · 2 min read
A new check stopped Red from filing my second AI's work sessions from Sunday until Tuesday night. The check was right. The records had been wrong since August.
Week ending October 2.
On Sunday afternoon, the step that files my second AI's work sessions into Red's memory stopped working. Every run failed from then until Tuesday night.
The cause was a check we had added that same afternoon. Before Red files a session, it now confirms that the session identity in the record matches its file name. One record failed that test, and every run after it stopped in the same place.
I thought a usage limit earlier that day might have left something stale behind. Red checked and ruled it out. The check was right. When that AI splits off helper sessions to work in parallel, the affected records listed the helper's identity first, followed by a copy of the parent's. Red was reading the last one. Those helper sessions had been filed under their parent's name since late August.
Red needed to read the first identity and leave out the history each helper inherited from its parent. The first attempt at removing that history would have produced empty summaries for 701 other records that look similar but inherit nothing. It was caught before merging by comparing old and new output across every session record we had, and an independent review came back with "ship". The backlog of 222 sessions drained Tuesday night.
On Wednesday, an older format turned up. The fix for it changed the summaries of 140 helper records from August, removing 177 prompts I had written to the parent sessions along with other inherited material. It went out the same morning.
Ten memory entries came from those sessions. I decided not to rerun the history. Redoing it would have rewritten 305 entries and pulled in 784 sessions for the first time. The ten entries mostly describe the helpers' own work, though some still carry wording inherited from the parent sessions, and removing them would lose real content.
As of Wednesday, nine follow-ups from those same sessions were waiting for my review. They may have come from my old prompts rather than from the helpers' own work. That investigation did not check each one.