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Applied AI·July 14, 2026·1 min read

Inference needs memory: how context is becoming AI infrastructure

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Treating context as disposable is breaking down as enterprise AI stacks scale — long-term memory is becoming a first-class infra problem, not a prompt hack. Teams need to design for persistent, governed memory layers now, or you’ll be stuck retrofitting RAG, vector stores, and event logs into brittle apps later.

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