AI Agents Have Amnesia. A Bigger Context Window Won’t Cure It. (opens in new tab)

Why memory is the missing layer of the agent stack, the seven problems any real memory system has to solve, and the shape of an architecture that survives them\. Part 1 of 2 on building memory for AI agents\. This part is the “why\.” Part 2 is the architecture\. ~10 min read\. On Monday you tell your coding agent that your team uses pnpm, not npm\. It apologizes, fixes the command, and carries on\. On Thursday it runs npm install again\. You explain to your AI assistant, for the third time th...