When you talk to ChatGPT or Claude, should it remember your earlier conversations? One camp says yes: without memory the AI meets you from scratch every time. The other says no: modern models can read hundreds of pages at once, so just give them the whole chat history. I build an open-source memory layer for AI assistants ( Aura Memory ), so I had a reason to want the first camp to win. Instead of arguing, I spent a week testing it. I used my own real chats with AI coding assistants and pu...