Memory Is a Context Source

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The current request says, verbatim: “Do not modify the existing migration.” The admitted context contains months of migration history — previous plans, old decisions, the full archaeology of the project — alongside that one-sentence instruction. The model answers the history instead of obeying the instruction, and helpfully proposes the modification it was told not to make. Every remembered item was valid. Every one was correctly stored, retrieved, and rendered. The failure is none of those stages. The failure is that durable past information entered a computation it should never have influenced. That is the entire subject of this chapter, and restraint is its hardest case.

Boundary on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming

Memory Is a Context Source