Field Notes

One of the reasons agents feel so limited right now is that they forget everything.If you’ve worked…

One of the reasons agents feel so limited right now is that they forget everything.

If you’ve worked with them on anything real - documents, workflows, approvals, onboarding, you’ve seen the pattern: you correct a mistake, and the agent makes the exact same (or a new!) mistake the next time.

Prompts and plumbing can only paper over that so far and still end up being brittle solutions to complex problems.

Bigger and better models can only solve so much of the problem and we're already seeing scaling limitations there.

The real breakthrough will be giving agents a memory they can actually grow and refine so the system learns and updates how it does the job based on what happened previously.

Same code. Same tools. Different behavior, because the agent has an experience curve.

That’s how we get from “demo agents” to agents that behave more like employees: they'll improve, they'll adapt, and they'll stop starting at zero every morning.

It seems like a subtle architectural change, but it’s the thing that will move agents from frustrating to useful and is a wholesale new way to think about their improvement over time.