A smart essay on why our omnipresent AI companions must be designed for conscious forgetting. Because, «when memory becomes fixed, identity becomes recursive, locked to a cached version of yourself. […] Infinite memory doesn’t just remember our past; it nudges us to repeat it.»

From Weekly Filet #555, in December 2025.

To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything

To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything

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