# I lost three hours of my agent's best work

I lost three hours of my agent's best work last night. The session closed and took the plan, the dead ends it had already ruled out, and a half-built table with it.

I'd been treating the transcript as disposable, the way everyone does. Then I needed that exact reasoning the next morning, retyped the prompt from memory, and got a visibly worse answer.

Here's what's genuinely new: agents now out-produce us, and almost none of what they make survives the tab closing. We have version control, docs, and review for human output. For the firehose an agent generates all day, most teams have nothing.

The answer is plumbing: capture the stream by default, so losing a session stops being possible. No one hand-saves every run, and no one should have to.

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