A Genius With Amnesia
summary
Claims that agents are constrained by repo boundaries and episodic amnesia and that this causes seven explanations for a single cross-repo change. Describes a concrete system, the Polygraph meta-harness, that computes a unified dependency graph across hundreds of repos, captures session traces and agent logs, materializes sessions on another machine, runs coordinated multi-repo PRs and CI as one vector, and demo shows it fixing a production bug by restoring state. Demonstrates tools (Claude, Cortex) integrated and shows the approach working end to end to give agents eidetic memory of an organization.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Genie's challenge
- 2:51Core limitations of agents
- 6:23Repo boundary problem
- 9:36Restoring agent memory
- 12:44Resuming work seamlessly
- 15:11Fixing production bugs
- 16:12Automating repo selection
- 19:06Hive mind of agents
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