our AI agent isn't getting dumber. The memory underneath it is just rotting and nobody told you.
Summary
This article explains that AI agents don't actually get dumber over time; instead, their underlying memory accumulates corrupted context from stored assumptions, summaries, and contradictions, leading to performance degradation. Most systems lack the ability to revise or forget information, causing decay.
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