Notes

Builder's notes for Trace — a local-first witness agent that reads your AI conversation history and generates weekly narrative dispatches. Not a summary or dashboard, but a short-form piece of writing that surfaces patterns, tensions, and the distance between intention and action across time.

A learner's guide to the three main strategies modern AI uses to handle long context — dense attention, sliding window, and memory-augmented retrieval — and the tradeoffs each makes between speed, coverage, and cost.