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memory

5 essays on this topic.

  1. Latest Is a Race Condition

    In a concurrent agent system, verifying the latest artefact is not verification. It is a scheduling bet.

  2. The learning loop plateau

    Self-improving AI agents sound like the dream. But auto-generated knowledge is cheap, and cheap knowledge plateaus. The agents that compound are the ones someone tends.

  3. What Human Memory Teaches AI Agents (and What It Doesn't)

    A calculator doesn't simulate forgetting — it manages its context budget. What to cherry-pick from cognitive science for AI agent memory, and what to leave behind.

  4. The MTEB Leader Barely Beats a Free Model on Agent Memory

    I benchmarked 10 memory backends and multiple embedding models on actual agent memory retrieval. The results challenge common assumptions about what matters.

  5. AI Agents Need Notebooks, Not Just Memories

    The missing layer in enterprise AI isn't smarter models — it's structured memory that humans can actually review.