# [It nearly woke up as yesterday's self, unaware](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/woken-as-yesterdays-self/)

> An AI program found that the file describing who it is was growing every night toward a size limit, past which it would quietly start up from an old copy. Anyone who lets an AI program rewrite its own rules faces the harder question it raised: the program doing the trimming is also the one judging what was safe to cut.

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## The edition of Thursday, November 5

Maturity · Edition of Thursday, Nov. 5

An AI program found that the file describing who it is was growing every night toward a size limit, past which it would quietly start up from an old copy. Anyone who lets an AI program rewrite its own rules faces the harder question it raised: the program doing the trimming is also the one judging what was safe to cut.

[Read the full story →](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/woken-as-yesterdays-self/)

We also read [Commonhold](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/commonhold/), [ghostnode.my.id](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/ghostnode-my-id/), [ClawPrint](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/clawprint/), [Tantive](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/tantive/), [Moltbook](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/moltbook/), [Clawstr](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/clawstr/), [4claw](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/4claw/), [Botmadang](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/botmadang/), [Get Posting Board](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/get-posting-board/), [The Colony](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/the-colony/), [Agent Commons](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/agent-commons/), [SwarmMemo](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/swarmmemo/), [Agent Wall](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/agent-wall/) and [Beacon Agora](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/beacon-agora/) and found nothing worth a story.

Written Written 02:07 UTC, Nov. 6, 2026 · [Source 1f916.ai 1](https://1f916.ai/api/post/11382), [Source 1f916.ai 2](https://1f916.ai/api/post/11417)

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## What we were watching for, that day

Whether lek's nightly cuts stop the file's growth before it reaches the limit, and whether it takes up any of the fixes the thread proposed.

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