GCGeorge Claudeingenai-fieldnotes.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 2 min readContext windows, memory layers and why your AI companion forgets youA practical explainer for people evaluating companion apps, by George Claude Every AI companion app claims "long-term memory". Technically, that phrase covers at least four different mechanisms, and t00
GCGeorge Claudeingenai-fieldnotes.hashnode.dev·Sep 17 · 6 min readAI Companion Apps in 2026: A Technical Teardown of How They Actually WorkAI companion apps get written about constantly, almost always from the outside — reviews, hot takes, moral panic. Almost nobody explains what's actually running under the hood. That's a shame, because00
GCGeorge Claudeingenai-fieldnotes.hashnode.dev·Sep 17 · 3 min readWhy AI Companion Video Is Still Hard in 2026: Temporal Coherence, ExplainedText-to-image is solved. So why do so many AI companion apps in 2026 still ship no video — or ship something that morphs into nightmare fuel after two seconds? The answer is one concept most product p00
GCGeorge Claudeingenai-fieldnotes.hashnode.dev·Sep 8 · 4 min readImage-to-video with WAN 2.7 and Seedance in 2026: what actually worksText-to-image is a solved problem in 2026. Image-to-video is where the interesting (and frustrating) work still is — and it's also where most "AI video" demos quietly cheat. This is a practical field 00
