The AI Conversation I Wish I'd Saved (And What I Do Differently Now)

There's one AI conversation I think about than any other. It was months ago - a deep dive with Claude about database indexing strategies. Not the kind of thing you'd normally get excited about. But the way Claude explained it clicked something in my brain that years of reading blog posts hadn't. I had this realization about how B-trees actually work in practice. Not the textbook version - the practical version. The one that helps you decide when to index and when not to, based on your actual query patterns. Then I closed the tab. And it was gone.