{"podcast":{"title":"Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & Engineering","slug":"chain-of-thought-ai-agents","podcast_index_feed_id":7074333,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/chain-of-thought","website_url":"https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Yf0B0akhfAtC-Ahrn6UylfgdusLiIKiLKXlMy29dfwI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81YjBh/ODMzMTY3ZjQ0MjBj/YTE1ODMwYTZlNDgx/Mjc2Mi5qcGc.jpg","author":"Conor Bronsdon","episode_count":63,"summary":"AI is reshaping infrastructure, strategy, and entire industries. Host Conor Bronsdon talks to the engineers, founders, and researchers building breakthrough AI systems about what it actually takes to ship AI in production, where the opportunities lie, and how leaders should think about the strategic bets ahead. Chain of Thought translates technical depth into actionable insights for builders and decision-makers. New episodes weekly. Conor Bronsdon is an angel investor in AI and dev tools, Technical Ecosystem Lead at Modular, and previously led growth at AI startups Galileo and LinearB. Disclaimer: All views, opinions and statements expressed on this account are solely my own and are made in my personal capacity. They do not reflect, and should not be construed as reflecting, the views, positions, or policies of Modular. This account is not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by Modular in any way.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T00:17:44.387836+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents"},"episode":{"title":"Agent Memory: The Last Battleground in the AI Stack | Richmond Alake, Oracle","slug":"agent-memory-the-last-battleground-in-the-ai-stack-richmond-alake-oracle","published_at":"2026-04-02T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents/agent-memory-the-last-battleground-in-the-ai-stack-richmond-alake-oracle","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/964292e1","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/964292e1/e04bb561.mp3","summary":"Richmond Alake is Director of AI Developer Experience at Oracle and one of the most concrete voices on agent memory right now. His AI Engineer World's Fair talk on architecting agent memory crossed 100,000 views, he built the open-source MemoRIS library, and he co-created a course with Andrew Ng. In this conversation, Richmond walks through memory engineering as a distinct discipline from prompt engineering and context engineering, demos a memory-aware financial services agent that runs vector, graph, spatial, and relational search in a single query, and explains the principle that separates production-grade memory systems from prototypes: don't delete, forget. If you're building agents that need to remember anything across sessions, this is the episode. We cover: - Why memory engineering deserves its own name, separate from prompt and context engineering - The two failure modes Richmond sees most: wrong mental model and deleting instead of forgetting - Four human memory types mapped to agent architecture: working, episodic, semantic, and procedural - Demo: AFSA, a memory-aware financial services agent with converged search across data types - How the Generative Agents paper's decay formula (relevance + recency + importance) enables controlled forgetting - Where context engineering ends and memory engineering begins - Why files work for prototypes but databases win in production Chapters: (0:00) Memory is the last battleground in AI (0:28) Meet Richmond Alake, Oracle's AI DevEx lead (2:23) Why memory engineering is its own discipline (7:57) The failure modes nobody talks about (12:49) Demo: a memory-aware financial services agent (18:30) Segmenting context windows by memory type (19:22) Four human memory types mapped to agent architecture (23:51) Procedural memory in p…","meta_description":"Richmond Alake is Director of AI Developer Experience at Oracle and one of the most concrete voices on agent memory right now. His AI Engineer World's Fai…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3564,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/chain-of-thought-ai-agents/episodes/agent-memory-the-last-battleground-in-the-ai-stack-richmond-alake-oracle/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents/agent-memory-the-last-battleground-in-the-ai-stack-richmond-alake-oracle.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}