Memory, Rewritten: Why ByteRover Kills the Pipeline (and Maybe Saves Agents)
The agent did not forget. The system outsourced remembering. Memory sounds like a solved engineering problem until an agent has to use it for work. A customer-support agent remembers the refund policy but not why an exception was approved. A research agent retrieves the right document but loses the reasoning trail that connected three earlier notes. A workflow agent crashes halfway through a task, comes back online, and must reconstruct its own state from search results like a detective investigating a crime it personally committed. ...