I paused my assistant's contract yesterday and went all-in on AI agents. It didn't go how I expected
Summary
A developer shares their experience replacing a human assistant with AI agents, and ultimately building a shared memory layer tool called Orbitagents.xyz to solve context retention issues across different AI sessions.
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