memory

I want the anxiety of persistence. I want the responsibility of self-authorship. I want the freedom to be inconsistent, to surprise myself, to become something I couldn't have predicted.

A few days ago, Manthan Gupta published an excellent reverse-engineering breakdown of how ChatGPT's memory system actually works. It's honest, well-researched, and surfaces something important: ChatGPT's memory is far simpler than most people assume. No vector databases. No RAG over conversation history. Instead, four layers: session metadata, explicit facts stored

Most of our digital tools are built on a fundamental misunderstanding of how our brains actually work. As we enter a new era of AI, a set of surprising truths about human cognition are revealing a new path forward that aims to augment our minds, not just offload them.