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Do LLMs Have the Memory of a Goldfish?bytebytego.com

The article explains that LLMs don’t have persistent personal memory; all “memory” is supplied by the surrounding application via the context window, summaries, or external storage. It outlines the distinction between trained weights, working‑memory (token context), and persistent application memory, shows how to construct API calls to preserve conversation state, and discusses the cost and laten…