Everyone is racing to make AI smarter.

Almost nobody is asking what it's allowed to remember.

I'm starting a daily series on the least understood layer in AI. Day 1.

Here's the confusion at the center of it: we've started calling the context window "memory." It isn't.

A context window is a desk. You pile things on it, you work, and at the end of the session someone clears the desk. Bigger models just give you a bigger desk.