Fixed Context Window as the Root Cause

week 1 · park, squirrels, ran two laps … weeks of other conversations, ≈ 9K tokens and growing … today · "remember the park?" the whole conversation, in tokens context window · fixed length only this part reaches the model outside the window → gone "Sorry, I don't remember you mentioning the park." a bigger window is not a fix conversations keep growing · and nothing says who the user is so a memory system has to answer four questions 1 what to store becomes the storage module tiers, pages, topic folders 2 how to update becomes the updating module what moves where, what is dropped 3 what to recall becomes the retrieval module which pages return for a query 4 how to answer becomes the generation module how recalled memory enters the prompt
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