"What was I doing yesterday?"
Do you wake up like this sometimes? If your memory is strong, you will remember Sanjay Singhania from Ghajini — and the original Tamil film of the same name.
If it is short-term memory we are talking about… well, can't help it. 🙂
🎬 Imagine This
Sanjay Singhania is now an AI agent
⚙️ Until Things Change…
Midway through the run
✗Someone edits the plan
- ✗Someone changes the order of the tasks
- ✗Someone adds a new instruction
- ✗Someone removes a step
Now what happens? He pauses. He gets confused. He re-reads partial context. He forgets what happened before. And suddenly the whole flow breaks.
🧩 That's Your AI Agent
Exactly the same pattern
✗The behaviour you are actually seeing
- ✗Works great with a structured flow
- ✗Struggles when instructions change mid-run
- ✗Depends heavily on the context you provide
- ✗Has hard limits on how much it can "remember"
It is not thinking continuously
It is reconstructing context every single time. That single sentence explains most of the agent behaviour that surprises teams in production.
😂 The Funny (But Real) Moment
When the notes contradict each other
Conflicting instructions
Sanjay writes: "Find the target. Don't trust anyone." The next note says: "This person will help you." Now he meets that person — and he will either trust the wrong person or fight the right one. That is your AI agent when context conflicts, instructions are inconsistent, and memory is incomplete.
Conclusion
"Before I forget…"
AI agents are powerful. But today they are not continuous thinkers. They are context-driven, memory-limited, and instruction-dependent.
Until memory and reasoning truly evolve, they will keep waking up every time asking: "What was I doing?"