Agents

I should have bought RAM last year. Anyone who runs anything at home has said some version of that sentence in 2026. Conventional DRAM contract prices rose 93 to 98 percent in the first quarter of this year alone, according to TrendForce, and they are still climbing, with another 10 to 15 percent forecast for this quarter (TrendForce, 30 September 2026). Graphics cards are worse. TweakTown found the cheapest RTX 5090 in Germany listed at about $5,900 (₹5,61,000), against a list price of about $2,360 (₹2,24,000), converted at 18 October 2026 rates. The AI build-out is buying the memory, and the rest of us get what is left. ...

Ted Lasso recommends being a goldfish. It is, he says, the happiest animal alive: it forgets everything in ten seconds and moves on. My agent took that advice. Hermes is a goldfish — every conversation starts from zero, and anything it “knows” about me is either written into the prompt or fetched from somewhere else. And for a while I was one too: it would ask me again about things we had settled a week ago, and I would explain them again, from the beginning. The difference between us is that I could do something about it. So I spent a few weeks giving it a memory. We are goldfish, the agent and I, but only one of us was going to stay that way. This is what I learned about the options, what each of them actually means, and the architecture I ended up with. ...