AI glossary / Using AI
Chat history
The saved record of your past conversations with an assistant. You can usually delete it or turn it off.
More words in Using AI
- Coding agentAn AI that can read a software project, make changes, run tests and fix errors, working through a task step by step.
- Computer useAn AI operating a computer the way you do: looking at the screen, moving the mouse, clicking and typing.
- Context engineeringCarefully choosing what information, files and instructions to give an AI so it has what it needs and nothing that distracts it.
- Context rotWhen a conversation gets so long and cluttered that the AI's answers get worse. Starting a fresh chat usually fixes it.
- Context windowHow much the AI can keep in mind at once, including your conversation and any documents you share. Go past it and it starts forgetting the earliest parts.