Tending the Library: Why AI Memory Rots, and the PageRank Fix
Two months ago I wrote about giving my AI a library — a persistent, file-based long-term memory so Claude could remember 161 conversations instead of waking up with amnesia every morning. That post was about building the thing. This one is about a problem nobody warned me about: A memory you don't tend rots faster than no memory at all. The Disease Has a Name: Entropy Here's what they don't tell you when you set up persistent AI memory. The first week feels magical. The AI remembers your projects, your preferences, the bug you fixed on Tuesday. You feel like Tony Stark. Then the rot sets in. You rename a project but the memory still points to the old path. You kill a side-project but its file lingers, and three weeks later the AI confidently references a tool you deleted. You migrate a folder from Desktop/ to Projects/ and now half a dozen breadcrumbs lie about where things live. Each individual lie is small. Collectively, they poison the well. I ran an audit this we...