http://programmer.ie/tags/episodic-memory/ Recent content in Episodic Memory on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:14:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/agents-from-first-principles-07/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:14:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/agents-from-first-principles-07/ <h1 id="ai-agent-forgets-previous-work-add-working-semantic-and-episodic-memory">AI Agent Forgets Previous Work? Add Working, Semantic and Episodic Memory</h1> <p>An agent can use the right model, call the right tools, execute the right plan, and still behave as if nothing that happened five minutes ago matters.</p> <p>You see the symptoms quickly:</p> <ul> <li>it re-reads files it already inspected;</li> <li>it repeats research it already completed;</li> <li>it asks for information the user already supplied;</li> <li>it forgets why a previous approach failed;</li> <li>it loses decisions made earlier in a long task;</li> <li>it treats every new run as if the system has never seen the problem before;</li> <li>it retrieves an old answer and treats it as current truth;</li> <li>it fills the prompt with so much history that the useful information is buried.</li> </ul> <p>The usual response is:</p>