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Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

364 points · 260 comments · kmeh

  1. DriverDaily · · focus · HN ↗
    The brain has mechanisms that can organize experiences without requiring that relationship to be expressed as a sentence.

    Like, you can quickly lookup related ideas based on what came before and after, causes, effects, just like calling relationships a graph database.

    Documents can’t be queried efficiently like that, you need a database.

    1. apsurd · · focus · HN ↗
      I get what you're saying but it seems presumptions to compare a graph database to how our brains work. And also that LLMs <-> (the way they do memory) is the right analog to humans <-> memory.

      I take the article's point more directly. It's just a straighter line to have clear communication through documentation than to fuddle around with the perfect memory setup.

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