Context Switching with AI: The PRD → Tasklist → Work Loop
18 Jun2025

Another observation from using AI agents for multiple projects – at work and for a bunch of pet projects at home:

The PRD → Tasklist → Work loop makes context switching surprisingly painless. I can drop a project for days, sometimes weeks, and then come back and pick it up almost instantly.

Why? Because the PRD and tasklist hold all the context the model needs to keep working – and when I read them, they page that same context back into my brain too. It’s like shared memory between me and the AI.

If I ever come back to something and parts of it don’t make sense to me, that’s a red flag. The model wouldn’t get it either. So I work with it to figure things out and update the docs with what we learned.

Over time, this creates a really effective flywheel:

  • I clarify something
  • The model gets smarter
  • The docs get better
  • I ramp up faster next time

It’s a simple loop. But it works stupidly well.


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