Episode 011: Activation Energy: How AI Gets You Back Into Old Projects

Brendan dove back into three stalled projects in one day — a personal command center, a video game tracker, and a Rails 8 app he hadn't touched in two months — and both hosts dig into why AI makes restarting old projects so much easier: it remembers where you left off, tells you what's actually built, and (with Fable) plans and cross-checks the reassessment before you write a line of code. They get into when it's worth splitting context (personal vs. project-specific memory), why Fable feels like the best planner but not necessarily the best daily driver, and how tools like Conductor now auto-select models per task. Plus: what actually happens when sub-agents run out of session usage mid-task, and why lowering activation energy might be the single biggest thing AI has changed about how they work.

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