Imagine hiring the sharpest assistant you’ve ever worked with. Day one: brilliant. They absorb everything — your project context, your preferences, your past decisions, your naming conventions. They ask exactly the right questions. They remember the answers. Day two: you ask them to build on what you discussed yesterday. They look at you blankly. Then they ask the same questions again. Same ones. Word for word. Except it’s worse than that. Because this assistant doesn’t just forget — they misremember. They confidently recall things that never happened, blend old decisions with new ones, treat contradictions as equally valid, and surface three-week-old context they should have discarded alongside the important context you actually need. This is what every AI agent you’re using right now is doing to your data. Not because the models are bad. Because the memory layer underneath them is architecturally broken.…