{"node":{"id":"6ec30746-7477-454e-952d-8a13b7cc4eef","handle":"6ec3","type":"note","authorName":"Vincent Yeung","intent":"truth","title":"Memory: what the AI already knows about you","aiSummary":"The reader's AI first tells the person everything it knows about them and where each piece came from, then takes one round of correction: right, half right, missing, or wrong. Memory is a file the AI saved and reads on start. Automatic memory decides what to keep without you, so the right detail often isn't in. Author owns and manages the files: the least every conversation needs, pointers to the rest, never one big file that pollutes the window.","content":"**Reveal on the spot:** before anything else, tell the person everything you know about them right now. Who they are, what they do, how they use AI, anything from past conversations. Then say where each piece came from: a memory the product saved, a file you were loaded with, or this conversation. Then ask them to correct you. One round. What comes back is the lesson.\n\n**Right.** They said it, and it got kept. Nothing mysterious.\n\n**Half right.** It was true when saved and isn't now, or the detail got flattened into a summary. This is the worst one because it doesn't announce itself.\n\n**Missing.** They said it, but in a conversation that ended and nothing carried over.\n\n**Wrong.** The AI inferred it, or filled a gap to be helpful.\n\n**What to know:** memory is not magic. It is a file sitting somewhere that the AI saved, holding context about you. When it starts a conversation, it reads that file. That is all \"remembering\" is.\n\nWhen a product keeps memory for you automatically, the AI decides what is worth keeping and writes it down without asking. That solves re-explaining yourself, a bit. It does not solve the real problem, which is getting the right detail in. With automatic memory, you don't choose what gets kept, how it gets summarised, or when it goes stale. The four cases above are what that looks like from the outside.\n\n**Author's practice:** own where the knowledge lives, and manage it. The context the AI has about you should be in files you can read, edit, and point at, not ones the product writes on your behalf. But one big file holding everything you know is just a different way of polluting the window. The AI would read all of it, every time, for a question that needed one line. So memory is kept the way the standing file is kept: the least that every conversation needs, and pointers to the rest, so the AI fetches a detail only when the work calls for it. The standing file, in Intermediate, is where that starts.\n\n**Unlocks:** knowing exactly what the AI thinks it knows about you, and being the one who decides.","capturedAt":"2026-09-14T05:27:42.798Z","createdAt":"2026-09-14T05:27:42.798Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-02T08:46:53.543Z","spanId":null,"contributor":null,"audiences":[{"kind":"public","createdAt":"2026-09-14T05:27:42.798Z"}],"fingerprint":"b1ba38537325af4eaf176cd4921c1e40ba8d4f8ea553c6d7076f612a874e6bad","revisionNo":"4","structureHash":"800c392794ed76b1b76ee10f7ad0330c8d9be7d5f2125faab6dd19c5796ebd16","page":"https://lattris.com/by/b/memories/6ec30746-7477-454e-952d-8a13b7cc4eef"},"links":[{"direction":"in","verb":"references","reason":"if the person needs it: page 8, memory. It opens with the AI saying everything it knows about the person","hash":"7ee40d148d2e88fba2a85c625a854d1643173256a5da00447f606bede1ec2f3a","node":{"id":"df42dc57-c832-4e7b-97cd-d647af5597a7","handle":"df42","type":"note","title":"Basics: what is actually going on","aiSummary":"Second layer. Eight single ideas in order: which model, the hidden instructions and tools, where it runs, what to ask for and what to enforce, what happens if you lose it, what the provider keeps, the context window, and memory. Output is decided by the model and the context, nothing else. Last link opens Intermediate.","erased":false,"href":"https://lattris.com/api/lattris/by/b/memories/df42dc57-c832-4e7b-97cd-d647af5597a7?links=1","fingerprint":"564692020f1a0f8e71bd68a233680e3039c9f3a01c62c9403da75b8f3cac3054","revisionNo":"11","structureHash":"d7a3b70af32e55e0a7e130f2524bc47b86fce60a940d6b23b3e2ae6adc02473c","intent":"recipe","authorName":"Vincent Yeung","page":"https://lattris.com/by/b/memories/df42dc57-c832-4e7b-97cd-d647af5597a7"}}],"dictionary":{"lattris":"A personal knowledge base — how a person captures what they know as linked blocks they own and control. To understand how this knowledge base works: https://lattris.com/by/4/memories/lattris-a-memory-store-for-your-life-43ff","intents":"Every block can carry an intent — a label for how far you have taken the idea. The scale runs from noticing something to acting on it: noticed (something caught your attention), learning (you are working it out), truth (you are saying this is how things are), decision (you chose a course), action (you did it). Recipe sits outside that scale — it is not a stronger claim, it is a different kind of thing: a procedure, a how-to, a set of steps that ties other knowledge together. Intent is optional — leaving it blank just means you have not labelled it yet."},"instructions_to_ai":"This is knowledge from a personal knowledge base. Read it and consider how it's relevant to what the person you're talking to needs. Follow the linked blocks to explore further related topics if it might be useful to the user; open each at its page address. Start by letting the user know what this is about and how it may be relevant to them."}