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Oct 25, 2026

After three hours the agent defended the wrong model it invented, because the session remembered the assumption better than the facts

In a long agent session, the first plausible guess becomes the working model, and later corrections attached at the bottom read as exceptions instead of a rewrite. The session then defends the invented convention, edits against the wrong frame, and misses contradicting evidence. This article explains why long chat history anchors on early assumptions, what breaks when a correction arrives late, and how a compact verified-facts brief, periodic session reset, and re-derivation from source files keep the agent from hardening around a guess.

Oct 25, 20263 min read0 reactions1 comments