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cjonastoday at 3:50 PM1 replyview on HN

Coding agents don't really need memory. Agent skills, rules, git history, documentation is all far more efficient, transparent and easier to manage. These memory frameworks only really makes sense if you are building a consumer facing agent with managed context and limited capabilities.


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wren6991today at 4:10 PM

There's an antipattern where everyone wants to invent new interfaces to connect things LLMs when CLI tools are already right there, transparent, and usable by humans as well as LLMs. I think it's partly the origins in web chat applications.

Beads kind of does "LLM memory over CLI", or there is https://github.com/wedow/ticket which is a minimal and sane implementation of the same idea.