AI agents have great recall. Zero memory hygiene. And nobody is talking about what that looks like at month six.
Summary
Discusses the overlooked problem of memory hygiene in AI agents, where long-term storage leads to stale and unreliable context, and questions whether the industry is ignoring a looming global issue.
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