AI Memory Is Kind of Broken. A Cambridge Researcher Proved It .

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 misrem