Why Your Agent Needs Memory, Not Just Context

About this episode

Richmond Alake discusses the importance of memory in AI agents and how it impacts their effectiveness.

Not onboarding your agent is on you. Richmond Alake, Director of AI Developer Experience at Oracle, joins Simon Maple to make the case that most agent failures come down to one thing: memory. Not the model, not the infrastructure. Memory. On the docket: why skills are just SOPs your organisation already has written downthe job title that is replacing prompt engineersfile systems vs databases for agent memory (and why one gets you hacked)the memory trick that makes agents feel actually intel...

People in this episode

Host: Simon Maple

Guest: Richmond Alake

Topics covered

• agent memory
• AI development
• software engineering
• agent failures
• organizational skills

Keywords

• AI agents
• memory
• context
• software development
• prompt engineering
• file systems
• databases

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oracle

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