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AI Assistants Need Background Work to Be Truly Useful
A developer building CliGate, a local AI control plane, found that AI assistants fail when they can't work after the chat closes. The solution required background runs with fresh context per task and a bridge to pause and resume with user input. This shifts AI from a chat box to a real assistant that can handle scheduled tasks autonomously.
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The piece highlights a practical limitation of current AI assistants that many users will recognize, but the solution described is still early-stage and not yet a mainstream feature.
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"My AI Assistant Stopped Working the Moment I Closed the Chat" →
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