Topic
memory
5 essays on this topic.
Papers
- Latest Is a Race Condition
In a concurrent agent system, verifying the latest artefact is not verification. It is a scheduling bet.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.