Your Brain Forgets Most of Your Life. So Does Your AI Agent.
A TED talk on memory by neuroscientist Lisa Genova made me realize that the same cognitive failures humans experience — attention gaps, context loss, prospective memory failures — show up in AI agents I build for real organizations. Here is what I learned and what I built to fix it.
Neuroscientist Lisa Genova explains why forgetting is normal — your brain filters out most of your day, loses context when you change rooms, and is terrible at remembering future intentions. I watched her TED talk and realized I had already encountered every one of these failures in AI agents I build for real organizations. Here is how the parallels work, what breaks in production, and what I built to fix it.
