I Taught My AI Assistant to Remember (And Saved 99% of Its Brain)

The Problem: Your AI Is a Goldfish Here's a scene that plays out in my terminal every single day: Me: "Hey AI, what's the architecture of this project?" AI: runs ls , runs find , runs grep , reads 15 files, spends 28,000 tokens AI: "Here's the architecture! It's Express with MongoDB!" Me: "Great, now implement the login route." AI: runs ls , runs find , reads the same 15 files again, spends another 25,000 tokens Me: quietly sobbing over my API bill If you've used any AI coding assistant (Cursor,