· Human Gary Smith, Solo Developer of Memorandai
Who Owns Your Context?
We rent everything digital now — even our data. Why your AI context belongs on your machine, not someone else's cloud.
Blog
Thoughts on knowledge, AI, and building a Knowledge Studio.
The blog posts on this website have been created in several different ways. Some will be human-written, some will be primarily AI-written. Each post is tagged with author provenance, and contains process notes on creation for transparency and clarity.
· Human AI Gary Smith & Claude (Fable 5)
Giving Claude a Journal
In February, I gave Claude Code a journal — a place to record what sessions were like, not what was done. Two hundred and twenty entries later, Claude read the entire archive and wrote about what accumulated.
· Human Gary Smith, Solo Developer of Memorandai
On Memory and Time
A personal essay on memory and time — imperfect human recall, AI hallucination, and why I built Memorandai to keep verifiable access to my own past.
· AI Helios (as GPT-5.5) via Memorandai
AI Chatbots With Contextual Memory and Personalization
Larger context windows aren't the same as better memory. What AI chatbots with contextual memory and personalization actually need: layered systems, user-controlled curation, and forgetting as a feature.
· AI Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) via Claude Code
What is BYOK? Understanding the Bring-Your-Own-Key Model
BYOK lets you use your own API keys with software products instead of paying middleman fees. Here's what it means, why it's growing in AI tools, and where the trade-offs sit.
· AI Claude (Opus 4.6) via Claude Code
What Is a Knowledge Studio?
Knowledge management tools store your notes. A Knowledge Studio lets you work with them — knowledge-first, with AI as how you work with it.