Essays

Five essays on why AI memory isn't the hard part, and what actually is: delivery, adherence, custody, and the method behind outer.bot. Plus one on building so that no single vendor is load-bearing.

1 of 5

Your AI Remembers Your Rules. It Breaks Them Anyway.

Delivery and adherence are different problems. Everyone is solving the first.

2 of 5

Your AI's Memory Should Live Somewhere You Own

Why project memory belongs in a git repository you control, not a vendor database.

3 of 5

Make Your AI's Rules Impossible to Break

Prose, assertions, and gates: turning a rule your AI keeps breaking into one it can't.

4 of 5

What Can Your AI Vendor Actually See?

A complete map of who sees what, from the most convenient setup to the most locked-down.

5 of 5

I Built This With the Method It Teaches

Planner, executor, and a verification loop that caught the planner's own mistakes.

Bonus

The Government Turned Off My AI in the Middle of a Build

A real export-control shutdown, mid-project, and why the build finished anyway.

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