When Your AI Assistant Forgot Everything: A Week with the Wrong Model and Too Little Context
A few weeks ago I wrote about fixing OpenClaw after context bloat and bad model routing. Then I immediately made a related mistake in the opposite direction. I switched the default model to openai/gpt-5.4 and kept the context window at 32,000 tokens. I wanted to test the model on real daily workloads. What I got instead was a week of repeating myself, failing background jobs, and an assistant that felt like it had short-term amnesia. ...