
Built a CLI that gives your codebase a memory
Two weeks ago I was debugging a module I had written myself. Sat staring at it for twenty minutes. everything was unfamiliar. The structure made no sense to me. I had to reverse-engineer my own code like a stranger had written it. The uncomfortable truth — an AI had written significant chunks of it, I had reviewed, merged, and completely moved on. Two weeks later it was an alien to me ! I kept thinking about this. We talk constantly about LLMs having a context window like it is some fundamental technical limitation. We never apply the same framing to ourselves. Developers have a context window too. AI-assisted development is just filling it faster than any human brain can track. The problem with existing solutions The obvious answer is "write better documentation." Every team says this. No team actually does it consistently — not because developers are lazy but because documentation written as a separate task from coding immediately starts drifting from reality. Asking your IDE to docu
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