Discussion: AI and Privacy-First Development

Title: Why LLM Context Windows Aren't the Answer to Personal AI Memory As developers, we often try to solve the 'memory' problem by simply stuffing more tokens into the context window. But as the window grows, so does the latency and the risk of the model 'hallucinating' or losing focus on key details. More importantly, there's the privacy wall: how do we give an agent access to a user's long-term digital history without compromising their data? I’ve been diving deep into the architecture of self-hosted memory hubs. The idea is to maintain a local, user-controlled vector store that serves as a 'long-term memory' for AI agents. By using a system like Nexus Memory, you can programmatically provide only the necessary context to an agent for a specific task, keeping the rest of the data safely behind a self-hosted firewall. This approach seems much more sustainable for personal assistants than the current 'upload everything to the cloud' model. Has anyone else experimented with local RAG (