u/bczajak

I wrote this after seeing another thread asking for “a real AI memory product” that is easy to set up and just works.

My take: most of what gets sold as AI memory is really recall — chunks in a vector store, pulled back by similarity. Useful, but not memory.

I’ve been building my own local-first memory system, and the thing it keeps proving back to me is that the hard part is not storage or retrieval. It is deciding what your knowledge actually is: facts, events, procedures, contradictions, provenance, and time.

Curious where people here draw the line between recall and memory.