ChatGPT made me faster… but I kept hitting context limits

Using ChatGPT for projects has been great, but I kept running into the same issue: context + token limits. After a few iterations: I had to repeat instructions (wasting tokens) responses became inconsistent things started breaking in weird ways At first I thought it was just a limitation of the model, but I realized I was overloading each prompt instead of structuring things properly. What helped: defining a clear goal before prompting breaking work into smaller tasks keeping each prompt focused This reduced both confusion and token usage a lot.