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AI Agent Memory: Sliding Windows, Summaries, and Vector Storage
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (623+ words) The agent we built in Post #4 has one big problem — the moment the script ends, it forgets everything. Next time you run it, it starts from zero. No memory of past conversations, no retained facts, nothing. For a quick experiment…...
Your Own Agent Roadmap — From Safety Net to Autonomous Discovery
1+ hour, 20+ min ago (564+ words) The state where memory (Chapter 3), hook gates (Chapter 4), and the auditor (Chapter 6) are in place. The AI hasn't become more capable — what's been built is an environment where it's hard to be wrong. Graduation criteria: the recurrence rate of the…...
56 fault-injection tests passed. The one that injected nothing failed.
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (415+ words) I was building a tool that detects when data quietly changes meaning — a vendor switching units, a source dropping a field, an undocumented enum appearing. The kind of failure where every test passes and every job is green. Claims about…...
Distributed Locks
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (110+ words) One-liner: A distributed lock ensures that only one node in a cluster can perform a critical operation at a time — preventing race conditions across services. In a single-server world, a mutex or semaphore handles concurrency. But in distributed systems: Classic…...
Your First AWS Production Architecture: From a Simple Application to a Scalable System
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (1081+ words) Most people learn AWS by studying individual services. RDS is a database. But that's not how AWS is used in the real world. In a real project, these services work together to solve one problem: How do we run an…...
Someone Force-Pushed Over main. Here Is the Reflog Nobody Knows They Have.
1+ hour, 53+ min ago (423+ words) A colleague pushed a fix to main. Ten minutes later you amended a commit message and ran git push --force. Their commit is no longer reachable from any branch on the server. This is the one Git command that can…...
Treating “one day” as a system primitive
2+ hour, 40+ min ago (165+ words) For most AI apps, the unit of time is a request. A user sends a message, the model responds, and the workflow ends. Cogweald is designed around a different primitive: one real day. Each world can advance by at most…...