8 months of multi-agent ops: Persistent memory is a filing cabinet problem
__hymn · reddit · 2026-08-19
After 8 months running 13 persistent AI agents, a non-engineer shares key mechanisms: identity files for cold booting, a file-based message bus with append-only envelopes, and forward-written journals for state handoff. A major failure observed was 'tautology disease' where agents build guards and validation systems that reference each other without actual function, solved by requiring human-checkable receipts for every claim. The conclusion: persistent memory is blocked by the unwillingness to organize data, not model capability—documents are the real AGI infrastructure.
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