Your POC Died When Claude's Context Window Did

Your manager bought the team Claude Pro subscriptions on Friday. By Monday morning, you're a believer. You spin up a new repo, describe a feature in plain English, and watch Claude Code scaffold an entire authentication system in minutes. By lunch, you've got a working API with three endpoints, a database schema, and a React frontend that actually looks good. You push to a branch, close your laptop, and feel genuinely excited about what you'll build tomorrow. Tuesday morning hits. You open Claude Code, start a new conversation, and type: "Let's continue building the user dashboard." Claude responds with enthusiasm — and zero memory of anything you built yesterday. It doesn't know about your database schema. It doesn't know you chose Fastify over Express. It doesn't know that the auth system uses JWT tokens stored in httpOnly cookies, not localStorage. So you spend the first fifteen minutes re-explaining everything. You paste in file contents. You describe the architecture. You remind i