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AI Memory in a Nutshell: The Model Forgets, the System Remembers
Community description: How an AI chat picks up where you left off days later, what actually gets cached, and how to design memory for your own LLM features, one step at a time.
Dev.to | Oct 16, 2026 | Shayan Mirzaie
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Three API calls make it clear: MODEL = "... " # any chat model The model didn't remember my name. With KV caching and prompt caching, every request still reaches the model, and the model writes a fresh answer every time. More memory isn't better memory, because irrelevant results distract the model.
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