Every developer who has used a coding agent for more than a few weeks has experienced the same failure mode. You start a task. The agent goes off and works. Twenty minutes later you come back and find the agent has been faithfully implementing something you would have redirected hours

The agentic-coding ecosystem has spent the past year arguing about which model is smarter, which benchmark matters, and which interface wins. Meanwhile, a quieter problem has been accumulating: coding agents have no memory worth the name. A session starts, context gets loaded, work gets done, and then — nothing. The agent