MEMA vs. continual learning: three kinds of AI memory
Context windows, explicit MEMA records, and model-internal continual learning solve different problems. Here is the evidence boundary for MEMA, Nested Learning, and a planned HOPE integration.
Engineering
Memory an AI agent can inspect
MEMA separates explicit records, retrieval, policy, audit, and integrity checks. Here is what those controls establish—and what they do not—at the current public and internal baselines.
Don't build a company brain. Scope memory small.
Errors in memory don't repeat, they breed. So the size of a memory is the size of its risk. The fix isn't one brain that knows everything; it's many small, isolated memories, each scoped to one cohesive use case.