Why Continual Learning Won’t Take Ten Years—Five Hot Paths and the Fight Against Catastrophic Forgetting
The article surveys five emerging approaches to LLM continual learning—external agent memory, context engineering, post‑training, pre‑training, and self‑modifying models—explaining how each tackles the core obstacle of catastrophic forgetting, citing benchmarks such as TRACE, ACE, and SDFT, and reflecting on Karpathy’s ten‑year timeline.
