State of the Art, Not State of Everything: Why Better AI Remembers Less
TL;DR for operators Production AI does not become reliable by remembering everything. It becomes reliable by preserving the information that defines the current state, explicitly representing what is allowed to change, and discarding history that would contaminate the next decision. Two papers arrive at this conclusion from remarkably different directions. One generates future amyloid-PET scans by anchoring the generative process to a patient’s baseline scan. The other builds persistent enterprise agents by retaining specifications, schemas, tools, and output contracts while deleting prior reasoning traces. ...