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Why Does Every AI Tool Forget You?
Community description: LLMs don't remember anything. "Memory" is text an app quietly pastes into your prompt. How that works, why it stays stuck in one app, and what I measured.
Dev.to | Oct 10, 2026 | Aditya Negandhi
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A chat only feels continuous because the app resends the conversation every time. Because the cheat sheet lives inside the app that wrote it. Paste too little and the model doesn't know the thing.
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