AI-Assisted Craft: Why the Memory of Your Project Is Not Your Codebase

The memory of your coding project is not your codebase. It never was. We always had an impedance mismatch between architecture diagrams and code. Whole teams existed just to hold context in their heads and map between those two artifacts. Some projects skipped the diagrams entirely — so they never felt the gap, because they never had the architecture. With agents, you cannot ignore this anymore. Come back to a project three weeks later. Ask your agent why it chose a particular pattern. Just forget about it. The context is gone — unless you deliberately preserved it. This is what my new book is about. Not another collection of Markdown files dressed up as a product. Not "how to configure Claude Code." Mindset. What it means to work with an agent. What skills YOU still need to bring. How to document intent in a way agents can actually use. How to build a cascade of specifications that survives across sessions and across a swarm of collaborating agents. Because right now we are shif