Your agent doesn't remember anything. Persistence isn't memory.

A customer support agent that forgets a user's billing conversation from two days ago isn't broken — it's just missing memory. Not persistence. Not idempotency. Memory . And they're not the same thing. That's the argument Ed Huang (CEO of PingCAP) makes in a sharp piece on The New Stack, and it's worth paying attention to. "Persistence without selection gives you a slow agent. Without compression, an expensive one. Without decay, a confidently wrong one. Without contamination prevention, an agen