I built a persistent memory layer for AI coding agents (and it fits in a markdown file)
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Every AI coding session starts blank. You open Cursor. You open Claude. You paste your architecture doc. You re-explain your folder structure. You describe your patterns again. Then the context window fills up and you start over. For small projects, annoying. For large codebases, it's a real productivity killer. The insight The problem isn't the AI. It's that there's no persistent, structured summary of your codebase that travels with the repo. So I built one. What Cortex does Cortex maintains…
1Key Takeaways
- Every AI coding session starts blank.
- You re-explain your folder structure.
- Then the context window fills up and you start over.
- For large codebases, it's a real productivity killer.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that every AI coding session starts blank.
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