Session, Store or Weights: Where Should Your Agent Remember Things?

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

One of my agents called my cat “her” once. He’s a boy. I corrected it, it fixed the draft, and the next evening’s run would have made the exact same mistake, because nothing from that conversation survived the session.

What fixed it for good was one line in a markdown file called learnings.md: the cat is male, he/him, always. The agent reads that file before it writes a single word. It never learned anything about my cat; it just looks it up every time.

Direction vs. Destination: When a Vague Prompt Is Actually Fine

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Last week I fixed this site’s profile picture with an agent. These were my actual prompts, in order:

“make the image smaller”
“Image is too small now”
“a little more big”
“a little more big and use square not circle”

I posted them on X as a joke: engineering precision. The longer I looked at the list, the more it read like a rule about when vague prompts work and when they don’t.

Engineering on The Farah Stack

Session, Store or Weights: Where Should Your Agent Remember Things?

Direction vs. Destination: When a Vague Prompt Is Actually Fine