TL;DR: AI coding agent memory should live in the repository, not the chat window. Bigger context...
AI coding agents lose context across sessions because chats are ephemeral, not because memory is too short. Treating the repository itself as the durable cognitive surface — storing checkpoints, decisions, and handoff state in the repo — is more robust than bigger context windows or vector databases.
TL;DR: AI coding agent memory should live in the repository, not the chat window. Bigger context windows and vector databases are solving the wrong problem. Here is the case for treating the repo itself as the durable cognitive surface.
Everyone is trying to solve AI agent memory right now.
Longer context windows.
Vector databases.
Conversation replay.
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