Your AI agent can think — but can it remember? Here's what I learned building a $2/month Claude API

Your AI agent can think - but can it remember? The most-read article on De.to right now is about a fundamental limitation in AI agents: they can reason brilliantly but they can't remember across sessions. I ran into this exact problem while building SimplyLouie - a $2/month Claude API for developers who can't afford $20/month ChatGPT. Here's what I learned. The memory problem in practice When you call a Claude API endpoint, you get brilliant reasoning. But the next call? Clean slate. No context. No memory of what you built together yesterday.