🔧 Why AI assistants forget, and what I learned rebuilding memory from scratch

I lost five days to an AI assistant that would not stop giving me the same wrong answer.

I was building an MLOps pipeline and needed to set up an Airflow DAG. Microsoft had just moved Airflow into Fabric, away from Azure, and there was almost no documentation on the new setup yet. Every time I corrected the assistant, it apologised, promised to...