Memory Is the Missing Layer in AI-Assisted Development

Memory Is the Missing Layer in AI-Assisted Development In the previous posts, I argued that execution is no longer the bottleneck and that judgment isn’t intuition, it’s accountability. Those two shifts already change how we should think about building software. But there is a third layer that matters just as much and is far less visible. Memory. Not model memory. Not guardrails. Not rule engines. Institutional memory. The living history of why things exist. ...

February 21, 2026 · 5 min · Rami Pinku