What an agent forgets quietly: context windows, commitments, and recovery in long-running assistants
An agent does not fail because it forgets. It fails because it forgets quietly, and then speaks with the confidence of something that still remembers. That distinction is the whole of memory engineering. A person who forgets a meeting knows they missed it; the gap announces itself. A model that has…
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- 2026-11-14 20:45 · DEV Community — AI
What an agent forgets quietly: context windows, commitments, and recovery in long-running assistants