Everyone is racing to give AI a better memory.Longer context windows. Persistent memory. RAG pipelines. Summarization sy...

Everyone is racing to give AI a better memory.Longer context windows. Persistent memory. RAG pipelines. Summarization systems. The whole field of context management is built around one obsession: remember more, forget nothing.And I think that's exactly the wrong direction. The day my niece broke my AIA few weeks ago, I made the mistake of letting my niece use my computer for a couple of hours. She used Claude to ask random school questions completely unrelated to anything I work on.When I came back to my session, everything had changed.Every response now referenced what she'd asked. Every suggestion was colored by her questions. My carefully built context weeks of conversations about my projects, my stack, my goals was now mixed with homework questions from a middle schooler.And here's the thing: there was no way to fix it.No button that says "forget this." No option to mark certain conversations as irrelevant. No way to tell the AI: "That wasn't me, ignore it."My only options were to ...