AI Agents Don’t Need Bigger Context Windows. They...

Most AI agents today are brilliant but amnesiac. While they can reason through complex tasks in a single session, they fail the moment they need to remember a user’s specific preference from last week or a project constraint mentioned three conversations ago. As engineers, we often try to solve this by increasing context windows or stuffing more tokens into the prompt. This is a mistake. A larger context window is just a bigger whiteboard; it isn’t a functioning memory system. To build truly use