Memory Isn't Learning

“If I knew the way, I would take you home” — Grateful Dead, “Ripple” Claude has a persistent memory system. It can write lessons to files on disk and read them back at the start of every conversation. After each failure, it saves a note: don’t do that again. And then it does it again. The notes accumulate. The behavior doesn’t change. This is a story about one bug that happened five times, another…