We Spent Months Building an AI Memory System Nobody Asked For — Here's Why, and What I Learned
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We want to tell you about a problem we couldn't stop thinking about, the system I built to solve it, and what the process taught me about building for correctness rather than for hype. The Gap I Kept Seeing We work on AI systems. The more time I spent with memory systems — MemGPT, LangChain Memory, Mem0, Zep — the more uncomfortable I became with one thing none of them mentioned in their marketing: the memories are stored in plaintext. Not "we have weak encryption." Plaintext! In a database.…
1Key Takeaways
- We want to tell you about a problem we couldn't stop thinking about, the system I built to solve it, and what the process taught me about building for correctness rather than for hype.
- The Gap I Kept Seeing We work on AI systems.
- The more time I spent with memory systems — MemGPT, LangChain Memory, Mem0, Zep — the more uncomfortable I became with one thing none of them mentioned in their marketing: the memories are stored in plaintext.
- Not "we have weak encryption." Plaintext!
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that we want to tell you about a problem we couldn't stop thinking about, the system I built to solve it, and what the process taught me about building for correctness rather than for hype.
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