AI Agents Without Memory Are Just Expensive Forgetful Interns
minchoi · x · 2026-09-11
The author argues most AI agents have no memory—only retrieval plus prompt inflation. RAG merely looks information up, while a real memory system decides what's worth keeping: policies, preferences, facts, episodes, and traces—then rebuilds the prompt from that each turn instead of stuffing more into context. The missing piece isn't a bigger context window, it's a write path. A free course on building one is linked.
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