#memory
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The Over-Refusal Tax: Why "Safe" LLMs Quietly Lose Your Data
In a memory/extraction pipeline, an over-cautious model doesn't refuse loudly — it silently drops the sensitive-but-true facts. Why that happens, how neutral-aligned models plus duty-releasing prompts fix it, and the cost twist nobody expects.
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eros-engine memory upgrade — putting the user profile in drawers
Yesterday's post mentioned a `category` column in the schema, but nothing was actually filling it. PR
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pgvector + Voyage for AI companion memory — 5× less RAM than Mem0
A walkthrough of how we run AI companion memory inside Postgres with pgvector + Voyage embeddings, and why dropping the Mem0 sidecar shrank our engine's resident memory by roughly 5×. Concrete schema, the embed-write-search loop in Rust, and the deployment math behind self-hosting on a shared-cpu-1x machine.
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Why AI companion products don't need a generic memory layer
We removed Mem0 from eros-engine and rebuilt the memory layer on pgvector + Voyage. This post explains why AI companions need a relationship-shaped memory system, not a generic facts store.