Are we all quietly rebuilding memory systems because current AI memory doesn’t actually work long-term?
Summary
The article discusses the common failures of current AI memory solutions in production, such as stale facts, summary drift, and vendor lock-in, suggesting that the real bottleneck is memory governance rather than retrieval.
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