From Memory to Machinery: Why AI Agents Are Learning to Write Themselves
Opening — Why this matters now There is a quiet but decisive shift happening in the world of AI agents. For the past two years, we’ve been told that agents “learn” by remembering — storing prompts, reflections, and reasoning traces. A polite fiction. Memory, in this context, is little more than annotated hindsight. But real systems don’t scale on hindsight. They scale on reusable execution. ...