Switch Models Mid-Conversation: No Restarts, No Lost Context
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Switching models mid-session sounds simple. In practice, most systems make you start over.
You pick a model at the beginning of a conversation. You build context — twenty messages deep, a dozen tool calls, a pile of file reads. Then you realize the model is too slow, too expensive, or missing a capability you need. Your options: abandon the session and start fresh, or keep going with the wrong tool for the job.
Helix doesn't work that way.
