Scattered Across AI Assistants: A New Kind of Cognitive Failure Nobody Has a Prior For
manosaie · x · 2026-10-30
The author describes a novel cognitive failure: forgetting which AI personal assistant holds the thread on a task, and frantically asking each app "do you remember us talking about this?" It's neither info scattered across apps nor conversations with people—the brain has no prior for it. She suspects perfect agent memory will turn out to be an anti-feature, and humans must first grapple with their own rapidly and subtly changing cognition.
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