Build an AI Brain You Own: Experimenting with Agent Memory
dfinke · x · 2026-08-27
This session explores how to equip an AI agent with a user-owned "brain" to accumulate and reuse knowledge across interactions, instead of starting from scratch every time.
- Core Concept: Turn your workflow into a library where the AI acts as a librarian, retrieving the right "books" at the right moment.
- Minimal Architecture: The experiment uses a tiny harness, five basic tools, Markdown, and an LLM to test the minimum machinery needed for an AI to behave like it has a brain you own.
- Practical Demo: A live experiment shows how an agent organizes, searches, retrieves, and utilizes a knowledge library while working.
- Inspiration: Aligns with concepts like Garry Tan's "G-Brain" (library plus librarian) or Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki blueprint.
Hosted by Doug Finke (16-time Microsoft MVP), the event addresses the "disposable" nature of current AI interactions to build repeatable automation.
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