Switching assistants mid-task is normal now. One is better at the research, another at the writing, or you hit a limit. The usual move is to paste the whole old chat into the new one. That works worse than it should. The new model reads every dead end as if it were still on the table. The approach you rejected in message 12 looks just as live as the one you settled on in message 40, so it suggests the rejected one again, or blends the two. What works better is having the old assistant write a handoff first: “I’m moving this work to another AI. Write a handoff it can start from: The goal, in one line Decisions made, each with the reason What we tried and dropped, and why, so it doesn’t suggest them again Open questions The exact next step Under 250 words. Only what’s true now, not the story of how we got here.” The “tried and dropped” line does most of the work. Without it, the new assistant confidently brings back the first idea you threw out. This is the part I automated in AI Toolbox, the extension I build for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok. Carry Forward writes the handoff from the chat you’re in and opens it in a new chat on whichever assistant you pick. It’s a Premium feature; the prompt above is the free way to do the same thing by hand. https://preview.redd.it/qubfpegw0mxh1.png?width=2240&format=png&auto=webp&s=cf9ab0200e46d2d2d6ed7ebca0cafe5884af5e18 Do you switch assistants mid-task, or do you finish each task where you started it? submitted by /u/Ok_Negotiation_2587
Originally posted by u/Ok_Negotiation_2587 on r/ArtificialInteligence