Archive: 2026
4 posts published in 2026
ActMem: when remembering isn't enough
Bridging the gap between retrieval and reasoning in agent memory
I’ve been reviewing papers on agent memory, since it’s one of the latest unsolved problems. Turns out there are multiple ways to take on this problem and I was hoping to summarise the most popular approaches, but there are too many and too extensive for a single post. So I’ll start with this one: bridging the gap between retrieval and reasoning.
The Chinese Room has understanding
It just can't prove it
I recently came across an article called Building the Chinese Room by SE Gyges. And it sucked me in. For real. It digs into John Searle’s famous thought experiment of the Chinese Room and argues that it’s fundamentally flawed. I went back and read Searle’s original 1980 paper to see for myself, and what happened next was unexpected: the more I read, the more I found myself disagreeing with everyone — Searle, Gyges, and at several points, myself. (Well actually, that is very me.)
The Art of Deception
Review of Kevin Mitnick's legendary book
I’ve read Kevin Mitnick’s The Art of Deception and so far my experience has been underwhelming.
Debugging? Where we're going we don't need debugging.
A thought on how we've been abstracting ourselves away from development work
I’ve been seeing a change in the overall community’s opinion of vibe coding. I wasn’t able to accept a lot of it but now I surprisingly find it… alluring.
For this story, we’re going to be going through the years across patterns on how software was built.