Dietmar Fischer
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The cake example made this clear.
A good AI cake assistant needs to know the current order, remember what happened with the customer before, respect stable facts like allergies, and follow the shop's order process.
If it mixes those up, you may get a unicorn cake for a teenager, a retirement cake covered in glitter, or far worse, the wrong allergy information.
Charming?
No.
Legally spicy?
Very much.
The business lesson is simple.
Memory must be designed.
It should not be one giant pile of notes called things the AI knows.
That is not intelligence.
That is a drawer full of cables.
A useful AI assistant should know what to remember, what to ignore, what to update, what to check, and what to forget.
Forgetting is not a weakness here.
It is part of good design.
Some things are temporary.
Some things expire.
Some things should never be stored at all.
The ChatGPT memory case showed why this matters.
When an AI can remember your preferences, projects, and workflows, it becomes much more useful.