2 posts tagged with "Agent Memory"

An agent can give a completely correct answer based on completely wrong company knowledge. The reasoning is sound, the citation is real, the document exists — and the number in it has been wrong since March.

This is the failure enterprises underestimate, because it doesn't look like a failure. There's no error, no refusal, no hedge. Retrieval worked. Generation worked. The system did exactly what it was built to do, on top of a corpus nobody was accountable for.

"Give the agent memory" is one of those phrases that sounds like a feature and is actually an architecture. Everyone agrees agents should remember things across sessions. Almost no one agrees on what that means — and the default implementation, a vector database that everything gets dumped into, produces agents that are confidently wrong about their own past.