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Kill your MEMORY.md

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  • Argues persistent agent memory (auto-generated MEMORY.md-style files) is net harmful, not helpful, for coding agents.
  • Recommends disabling auto-memory in Claude Code and keeping the agent stateless — deterministic behaviour beats accumulated, potentially stale or wrong context.
  • Sits in tension with Matt’s own /teach skill (explicitly stateful, tracks learner progress) — the distinction is state for a user-facing learning tool vs. state for a coding agent, where drift risk is higher.
  • Takeaway: default to stateless agent configuration for coding work; only add persistent memory where the state genuinely needs to survive sessions and drift is managed.