Has Anyone Actually Solved Memory Drift?

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Summary

Discusses the problem of memory drift in AI systems where preferences and facts become outdated but are only appended, leading to conflicting versions and unreliable retrieval.

Most AI memory systems have the same bug: They never admit they're wrong. A preference changes? Store the new one. A fact becomes outdated? Store the new one. A summary drifts from reality? Store another summary. Six months later your agent has three versions of the truth and retrieval is basically roulette. Why are we still treating memory as an append-only log instead of something that needs maintenance? Curious if anyone has actually solved this in production.
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