design
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I spent nine months calling it a fuel tank
The container was named after the most visible thing inside it. It was actually holding long-term memory, session history, and a record of who I had been while using it — and once you notice that, the whole tool has to change shape.
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They asked me to separate their accounts, not their tools
Isolating an account meant pointing one environment variable at a private directory. It worked. It also silently took away every custom command the user had written, because the vendor kept those in the same place.