http://programmer.ie/tags/work-frame/ Recent content in Work Frame on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:10 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/memory/10-chapter/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:10 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/memory/10-chapter/ <p>Chapter 9 finished the first arc. Seven layers now stand between raw history and an answer: retrieval, a persistent graph, associative pathways, routing, support lineage, temporal validity, open-loop status. Each earned its place against the failure class it claimed to fix. None has been asked the question that decides whether any of it was worth building.</p> <p>A context window is small and history is not. Every turn, something chooses which fraction of the past the model is allowed to see. So far that choice has been made by one mechanism: similarity to the words of the request. The enrichment of Chapters 4 to 9 sits behind that gate, and a gate that only understands wording cannot use it.</p>