[NEW] I spent 3 months teaching AI agents my codebase. They forgot by morning. Every. Single. Day.

Every morning for three months, the first thing I did was re-explain myself to my own tools.

Not the code. The code was fine. I mean everything around it: what we'd decided last Tuesday, why we'd ruled out that approach, what the sprint was actually about, how we structured things and why. The context that makes work feel continuous instead of like starting a new job every 24 hours.

Then one afternoon it tipped over. I watched my agent propose — in detail, with genuine confidence — the exact API structure I'd shot down two weeks earlier. Same reasoning, same blind spots. It had been part of our conversation. It just didn't remember.

I closed my laptop and took a walk.

This is my first time writing about this publicly, so bear with me.