https://www.thario.net/tags/memory.htmlRecent content in Memory on Software Engineer and HobbitHugo -- 0.164.0en-usMon, 03 Aug 2026 15:07:35 -0700https://www.thario.net/post/teaching-my-assistant-to-reach-and-remember.htmlMon, 03 Aug 2026 15:00:00 -0700https://www.thario.net/post/teaching-my-assistant-to-reach-and-remember.html<p>For the past week or so I have been doing a peculiar kind of engineering. I have been extending an AI assistant, and I have been doing it with the assistant. Not by feeding it into an editor as a source file, but by sitting across from it, describing what it was missing, and letting it write the code that would connect the new capability back into itself.</p> <p>The distinction sounds like a technicality. It is not. It is most of the point, but first, the two things I set out to give it.</p>