The Limit in the Loop: Why Agent Memory Needs Maintenance

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What happens when your AI agents forget everything between conversations? It loops. It repeats. It hits a wall. This week, we're sharing our thinking on Memory, not as a buzzword, but as the infrastructure layer that agents actually need to get better over time. Plus, we look back at 2025's biggest bets and make the case for why vector databases are a category of their own.

Why Memory Is the Next Frontier

Today, AI agents treat every session like a blank slate. That works well for a demo but not for production. In our latest blog, we break down why naive memory decays over time and what it takes to build memory that's maintained, not just stored, including write control, deduplication, reconciliation, amendment, and purposeful forgetting.

Because memory isn't something you store, it's something you maintain. Once you rely on it for continuity, it stops being a feature and starts behaving like infrastructure - a dependency that needs guarantees around isolation, durability, and performance.

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Prajjwal