The Bitter Lesson Explained: Richard Sutton's 26 Words (2026)
Richard Sutton compressed The Bitter Lesson into 26 words. What it means, why he now says LLMs break it, and what it changes for anyone building with AI.
Taskade Blog32 min read
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Markov Chains Explained: The Memoryless Math Behind Google, Monte Carlo, and ChatGPT (2026)
A Markov chain predicts the future using only the present. How one 1913 argument about free will produced PageRank, Monte Carlo, and modern language models.
Taskade Blog41 min readYour Agent Dreams. It Still Can't Tell You If It Got Better.
Dreaming makes an agent's memory better. Only measurement makes the agent better. Anthropic's Dreams, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini CLI and OpenClaw all rewrite agent memory offline — and every gate they document checks whether the rewritten memory is tidy, not whether the agent improved.
Reflexio Blog8 min readBuilding a filesystem-based agent memory on SurrealDB
Give an AI agent persistent memory as a filesystem in SurrealDB: computed file paths, fused full-text and vector search, and RBAC in a single PERMISSIONS clause
SurrealDB Blog17 min readContext Engineering: Deciding What an AI System Actually Sees
Coworker AI explains context engineering: the discipline of deciding what goes into a model's window, why less beats more, and how to measure it.
Coworker AI Blog8 min readMCP vs API: What Changes When You Standardise the Connection
Coworker AI explains MCP vs API: MCP is a standard layer built on top of APIs, what it removes, what it costs, and when a direct call is still better.
Coworker AI Blog7 min readRAG vs MCP: What They Do, Why They Are Not Alternatives
Coworker AI explains RAG vs MCP: retrieval fetches knowledge, MCP is a connection standard. They solve different problems and most systems need both.
Coworker AI Blog7 min readWhat Is Context Rot? Why Long Contexts Degrade and What to Do About It
Coworker AI explains context rot: why model accuracy falls as the context window fills, how to measure it, and why retrieval and a knowledge graph beat volume.
Coworker AI Blog9 min readHow Cobrainer built graph-based agent memory on one engine
Cobrainer runs graph-based agent memory and a Rust-native agentic graph RAG on SurrealDB, replacing a separate vector store and search engine.
SurrealDB Blog5 min readInside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization
Ryan is joined by Praveen Bodigutla, Principal AI Researcher at LinkedIn, to chat about the four-layer memory system his team built to give LinkedIn's hiring assistant a persistent, personalized state.
Stack Overflow Blog - AI29 min readHaystack 3.1.0
⭐️ Highlights 🪝CompactionHook and Built-in Compactors for Context Length Management Experimental context compaction for Agent. Runs before LLM calls and shortens the conversation once it crosses a configured fraction of the context window.
Haystack by deepset26 min readHigh Bandwidth Flash explained in 7min..
High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) is a misunderstood AI hardware announcements right now. 3 TB/s NAND does not mean SSD that behaves like HBM, really the real trick is massive parallelism. Reads can approach HBM-like aggregate bandwidth. Writes are still NAND writes.
Caleb Writes CodeGuideless raises €1M pre-seed to cut software training time by up to 10x
Guideless has raised €1M in pre-seed funding led by Superhero Capital to accelerate product development, team growth, and expansion across the UK, Europe, and the US.
Guideless Blog4 min readHow Creao Turned Agent Exploration Into Repeatable Execution
Creao used Reflexio to turn successful agent behavior into reusable guidance—cutting median model calls by 75%, reducing task failures by 36%, and showing positive impact from retrieved learnings in 47% of evaluated cases.
Reflexio Blog6 min readYour Agent Remembers Everything and Learns Nothing
AI memory and agent self-improvement sit in the same slot, use the same storage, and are sold against the same failure — which is why they get confused. The difference is what has to happen before the system writes anything down. One writes when something is said.
Reflexio Blog7 min readIntroducing KITE by Memoket
KITE is a vector-free memory engine that retrieves the memory that's true now, with inspectable, source-linked evidence.More
Memoket Gem Blog5 min readGraph engineering is missing a graph
Graph engineering stops at the diagram. The harder half is the context graph underneath: whether relations, vectors and memory share one consistency boundary.
SurrealDB Blog20 min readTesting known time in Agent Memory on a 2,200-year corpus
How to use asOf in Agent Memory to allow gating of spoilers to ensure that spoiler-filled memory, even if already ingested, does not show up if it should not.
SurrealDB Blog8 min read
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