By mid-2025, I got tired of AI tooling that forgot what I was doing halfway through a project. So I did what I usually do—dropped the bloat, ignored the trend, and built something simple that actually works.

AI_CORE is a local-file-based context system that uses folder names, Markdown, and some light TOML to keep my thoughts—and the AI’s—connected and grounded.

🧠 Summary

No vector databases. No plugins. No 3rd-party APIs.

“By February 2024, ChatGPT was my second monitor. CursorIDE became my third hand. But even prosthetics get tired.”
— Wing

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💻 Not a Valentine’s Post

This February wasn’t about hearts or roses. It was about prompts, diffs, and the quiet frustration of watching AI almost do what I needed—again.

CursorIDE entered my workflow with promises of tight integration, inline prompting, and smart code rewrites.
It was sleek. Fast. Magic, at first.