When the Agent Forgets

Outgrowing the Vibe Code · Jun 16, 2026 · 12m

Your coding agent keeps making confident mistakes — calling a function with the wrong arguments, drifting away from your naming conventions file by file, and starting every session like it's never met your project. In this episode, Ada and Boris trace all three back to a single root cause: the agent can't remember. They unpack context overflow (the agent filling a partial view with plausible-but-wrong guesses), convention drift (re-inferring your rules from whatever code is in front of it, until the inconsistency becomes the rule), and the blank-slate problem — a stateless tool that forgets…