I Built a Self-Referential AI System. Then Anthropic Discovered the Same Architecture in Claude.

LLMs drift. They forget rules mid-conversation. They cannot verify their own output. These are not bugs in a single model — they are properties of any system that processes information without a feedback loop. I learned this the hard way. My AI assistant kept repeating the same mistake across sessions. It would agree to a formatting rule, then ignore it ten turns later. I wrote a bug report to myself. That report became a configuration file. That file became an architecture. Then, on July 6,…