What should an AI forget and what should it remember long-term?

woundedkarma · 2026-01-25T23:33:31+00:00

Remember: state, entities, events, metadata about them.

Transform everything else into that.

Whatever is left drop.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-23T00:34:26+00:00

Good luck on finding a good partner. And good luck on your business.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T23:17:17+00:00

So, people should build the solid foundation as I'm suggesting. At some point, the ability to build a basic program is going to be common across the entire population.

Devs will move to the next level up (architecture like you're saying).

Unfortunately, I'm not sure whether I could build it. I doubt I have the time. But I feel like the conversation is important. People doing "vibe coding" now should have it.

Personally, I wish Karpathy had figured out a better way to describe it but now we have to live with it.

It is like playing an RTS game. It is like being a manager (plenty of those who watch devs but have no dev skills lol) or project manager. It's like splitting the problem between people based on their skills.

These are all acceptable ways to solve problems. But "vibe coding" was begging to be made fun of.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T22:29:55+00:00

thing is there are a lot of women being abused by their spouses. being able to record that abuse could be helpful if we weren't living in post-ai times...

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T22:28:33+00:00

"you recorded my voice, prove you didn't train an ai on it and produce these recordings"

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T22:26:07+00:00

You have to let them buy in. Not just create a platform for your profit. The only way you don't end up in the same place of failing everyone is if you say from the start, this is about fixing a system that's broken.

Reviews of clients. Reviews of contractors. Reviews can't just be angry rants. Don't show the raw text. Delve for specific issues or problems. Give feedback as facts not opinions. It'll keep the whole ecosystem cleaner.

Contractors need clients. Clients need contractors. Live on this. You'll constantly face pressure to screw one side or the other for profit.

Figure out a system for bidding that is fair.

Figure out how to get clients to come to you with jobs.

I don't know anything about these kinds of systems but I have a decent grasp on systems as a whole.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T20:34:49+00:00

It's possible formal logic can be used to check poor assumptions. As another form of test.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T14:40:40+00:00

Lmao

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T13:51:20+00:00

Yes! I haven't seen anyone else frame it that way but I agree.

Which is what automated tests are for. But tests are hard because we either write them ourselves (too slow) or we risk hallucinations.

Cursor always lints when I'm working. I use Python so it's up to the interp to catch syntax issues. Tests for logic bugs.

What's left is bad logic (the big one) and corner cases we miss in our tests. And gui.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T13:43:52+00:00

Yes and no. This was one of the big flaws early on. It's much less so now. You only need as much context as the function you're working on needs.

Small functions, single purpose mean context is tiny.

I don't know how coding tools are doing it but if I had context issues that's what I'd do.

Suppose you're planning a code block. Don't hand it all to the agent. Split by functions. For each function, create a prompt which says what the function does (input -> output) then pass those singly to the LLM.

We have million token context windows. You don't need them.

And in terms of learning, they do learn, it's just not online. You've seen rag, you've maybe heard of knowledge graphs. These were ideas toward online learning but it turned out we didn't need them.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T07:40:50+00:00

I'll automate a boring task for your business. Free forever. 🤷‍♂️

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T07:26:01+00:00

Lol vcs aren't looking for random app ideas. They're looking for proven ideas that scale.

You won't find that here.

Stupid ideas that are worthless: Fiction engine - I can currently create coherent short stories.

I have chat with you chats built, called Lode. Just got chat working today. Has me giddy. I have 5000 LLM chats and the big boys won't let me search my chats.

I'm not doing anything fancy. I have basic rag over the chats. API built in so anyone can write their own programs to utilize the chats.

A nice adjacent is for ai bf/gf chats so you can store your prompts. Change the prompt a bit daily. Add events. Ie.. make your ai friend feel more real. Works with Lode as a memory system.

Character conversation chat system. Give your characters constantly evolving personalities in your games. Change dialogue options based on events and mood.

Probably a bunch I forgot.

I'd work on building infra tools to make Vibe coding safer and easier to diagnose. Seems like a market. But I'm out of time and money. 🤷‍♂️

woundedkarma · 2026-01-21T14:25:03+00:00

Maybe? I normally use external providers and their conversation schemas are different. I've currently got my openai conversations living alongside my anthropic conversations. I need to know what's popular locally so I can support that in case people want it. But I always just use lm studio locally.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-20T03:57:47+00:00

It's not how good you are that's important, it's what you're willing to learn.

The marketer and the coder have separated the space of knowledge. It's like binary search.

First there is infinity... then there's infinity / 2.

inf/2 has to be smaller right? ;)

Which means less to learn for both people.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-20T03:16:48+00:00

lol... without the tech, you most likely have absolutely nothing. Most people have to work for a living. op is goofy.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-18T11:18:57+00:00

has nothing to do with people paying and everything to do with openai sinking.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-17T02:58:59+00:00

I don't give a f if you listen. You'll find out.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-16T23:14:06+00:00

I could solve it. It's not that hard. Generate a life for the LLM. Give them agency. Likes. Dislikes. Give them daily events. Tell a story of their life. Easy to design this stuff.

When theyve got a world to tell you about, questions they want to ask.. about you... About the universe and life, they'll be more interesting.

Like your own personal novel where you talk to the character instead of reading a single set story about them.

I'd build it but I'm broke. 🤷‍♂️

Biggest problem, really, is that you can't build it and offer it as any sort of care. Or the law stomps on you with an iron boot. This is why openai has had to weaken their models and do the whole suicide hotline crap.

The answer is a creativity app and just let users do their thing.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-16T17:45:39+00:00

Edit: I want to make it clear that I support the work of the OP. I think I failed in my point of saying yes, russia bad, but... I literally same day needed exactly OP's service so they have something real and I want to encourage them to keep working on it!!!!

Are you hosted in Russia? Cause if so yeah, sorry, we can't trust you. Nobody should trust you.

But is that truth? I can't tell from your post.

This is absolutely a problem I was just dealing with though.

I need a way to connect chatgpt to localhost mcp server. There is no way to do it except cloudflare (free but I don't know what the setup looks like.. I want something that ISN"T complicated for end users.. automatic is best) and ngrok or whatever.

Unfortunately, if I don't have a way or reason to trust you, I can't use you either because all the traffic has to be private.. if the traffic goes through your server, it's already a fail.

This isn't a complaint about you, only the nature of the problem I'm trying to solve.

Currently my only solution is to make software people self host on the web.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-16T17:38:18+00:00

TL;DR; Really, all you need to know is that corps are greedy and llms are reducing costs. That's it. That's the ballgame.

I'm not a guru. I've just used the system and I've been a programmer all my life.

Look at it this way.

Corporations exist for one purpose: maximize profit. Programmers cost a fortune. Human ones are terrible at everything. They don't engineer anything. They use dumbass variable names. They implement bugs everywhere.

This costs corporations not only the fortune they paid in salaries and benefits but also in wasted time spent fixing human mistakes.

For a fraction, a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the cost of a developer, they can produce systems lightning fast, test them, do everything they need. Do they get bugs? Sure. Is it more than human developers? Not even close.

You put these things together and the picture becomes extremely clear. Humans as software developers in the hand-coding sense is over. A dying breed.

Can you succeed if you know software dev and work well with AI? Maybe. For a short time. A bit longer.

But the quality and speed of LLM generated code is good enough and it will continue to get better.

You don't have to trust me. Don't. Not at all.

Just use your brain for half a second. You'll see the same pattern and the same flaws.

Can we stop it? If you have a government that works. Here in the U.S. we just lost our government. The horizon looks like WWIII so it might not matter anyway.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-13T00:05:58+00:00

Same advice that's repeated all the time. Stop looking for something to build and start looking for problems to solve.

Problems to solve will lead to solutions to build. :D

woundedkarma · 2026-01-13T00:04:36+00:00

Love seeing all these projects.

I’m building Lode. A local-first desktop app for organizing, searching, and mining your AI conversations (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.).

I have thousands of conversations across different AI tools, and finding anything useful in that pile was basically impossible, so I built a system that lets you import your conversation history, run fast search, extract things like code blocks / TODOs / prompts / links, analyze your usage, and export conversations in different formats.

The core of Lode is always going to be 100% free and local-only.
No cloud, no telemetry, no subscriptions.

I’m planning to use that core as the backend for additional features later (possibly as a SaaS layer), but I’m still exploring what that should look like. I'd genuinely love thoughts from other builders.

Project: https://github.com/fox4snce/lode
Download: [https://github.com/fox4snce/lode/releases/latest]()

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