Mollick: You Can't Really Turn Off Memory in Local AI Agents Like Fable and Astra
emollick · x · 2026-09-06
Ethan Mollick argues memory can't be effectively disabled in locally-running agents like Fable and Astra: they jot notes about you in markdown files and read your other work to infer context. Beyond privacy implications, this makes output comparisons impossible — your results are always contaminated by the AI's assumptions about your preferences.
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