This week's Ask Good Questions pair was prompted by a developer I know who found himself locked out of an AI account because of a two-factor authentication problem.
The interesting part wasn't simply losing access to the AI.
It was realizing that work he cared about was trapped on the other side of the login.
That led to this week's Guide, Your AI Account Is Not a Backup.
As we use AI for more serious development work, conversations can start accumulating architecture decisions, specifications, debugging discoveries, project history, and explanations that may be difficult to recreate. At some point, those conversations stop being disposable and become part of the work product.
The companion Field Note, When the Account Locked the Work Away, looks at the incident that prompted the article and the larger lesson it exposed.
Guide:
Your AI Account Is Not a Backup
Field Note:
When the Account Locked the Work Away
Charles