Pieces: Your AI Assistant with Artificial Memory
- David Wright
- Oct 22
- 2 min read
What does Pieces do
Pieces is an AI assistant with long-term memory that captures live context from browsers, IDEs, and collaboration tools.
The Current Landscape and Pieces
The developer tooling industry is experiencing a surge in AI copilots and assistants, led by GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, and Sourcegraph Cody. These tools excel at in-line code completion and generation but fall short on context persistence. Developers still lose valuable knowledge in tabs, Slack threads, and local files. Pieces fills this gap by being the memory layer across all workflows, not just within the IDE.
The Birth Story of Pieces
Pieces was born from the challenge of capturing live developer context across tools without disrupting flow. In Phase I, the team built the first privacy-preserving, on-device memory engine capable of real-time classification and structured recall. Phase II advanced this into long-term memory: reinforcement and decay models that determined what to remember, forget, and connect modeled after human REM sleep. Through deep optimization, Pieces achieved a 380% boost in recall accuracy while cutting resource usage 14×, enabling 18 months of adaptive memory on just 4GB. The result: an AI assistant with human-like memory.
The Pieces Solution
Pieces is building the first AI assistant with true long-term memory for developers. Unlike copilots focused on code generation, Pieces captures and links context across browsers, IDEs, and collaboration tools. Privacy-preserving and on-device, it boosts productivity today while advancing toward a unified memory layer for every developer workflow.
A Pieces Customer Story
"In my view, @getpieces is not about AI or memory - it's more about process, and few AI users have recognized that sustained, memory-infused conversations with an inherent capability to align context (documents, data, images, video, etc.) and do so with time-centric precision, transform your work beyond imagination.
Pieces is a genuine sea-change for me. It provides the structure and extensible agility that I cannot find in OpenAI, Google, Meta, or Anthropic. It is the embrace of the LLM-agnostic era that is sweeping the globe. And it is local-first.
If Windsurf is worth $3b, this product is worth $10b because all eight billion of us can benefit from it.
The following example demonstrates that a simple prompt can align thoughts about two completely different topics in two completely different apps across a 72-hour time segment." @bfrench
The Team Culture at Pieces
The Pieces team is made up of engineers, designers, and AI researchers who share a passion for AI. They live the same pains they solve, dogfooding every new feature internally before releasing it. The culture emphasizes craft, empathy, and speed with a mindset of building for builders.