Opinion

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The vault is the memory, not the tool

The vault is the memory, not the tool

BY Jens Reynders

Engineer

Jens is a Tech Lead and mobile engineer at November Five. He's been building cross-platform products — iOS, KMP, React Native — for over a decade. He writes about engineering practice and AI-assisted development.

TL;DR

TL;DR

An AI assistant is only as useful as what it can remember, and chat history does not count: close the window and it is gone. The fix is not a smarter prompt but a folder of plain markdown files you own, structured for the job rather than for the model.

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