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The deep technical strand of Exploded View. Take a real system apart to its internals, understand every layer, then build your own.

Engineering schematic of how a coding agent assembles context.

Internals № 01 · Part 1 of 2 · 12 min

Why Coding Agents Forget What You Already Taught Them

How coding agents actually assemble what a model knows, why it falls short as a project grows, and the five gaps a real memory layer has to close.

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The series

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Part 1 · Concepts & failure modes

Why Coding Agents Forget What You Already Taught Them

What "memory" really is inside your coding agent, and the five gaps that break it as a project grows.

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Part 2 · Architecture & build guide

The Log Is the Truth: Building Agent Memory From Scratch

The one decision that makes it work, how recall and precision are measured, the alias fix that beat bigger models, and a day-1 / week-1 / month-1 build ladder.

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