Why AI Agents Forget—And How to Build Human-Like Memory Systems

Why Your AI Agent Keeps Forgetting—and How to Give It a Human-Like Memory “ Audience: Anyone with a basic college-level grasp of computer science or product management who wants to build AI agents that remember what users said last week and forget what is no longer useful. Reading time: ≈ 18 min (≈ 3,200 words) Take-away: A plain-language map of how “memory” really works inside stateless large language models, why the usual “just add more text” approach breaks, and the minimum toolkit you need to keep, update, and delete information without blowing up latency or cost. 1. The Amnesia Problem: …