Fight Club Blog

A series in seven parts

Anatomy of a memory for LLMs

What psychology learned about remembering and forgetting, and what it means for the memory we give to AI agents and the apps built on them.

Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve, 1885: how much of a learned list he still kept as time passed.
Anatomy of a memory for LLMsPart 2 of 7 Type is a lifespan In 1879 a young German philosopher, Hermann Ebbinghaus, started an experiment with only one subject: himself. · 4 min read Read the article →
  1. 01 Anatomy of a memory for LLMs The man who couldn't forget · 4 min read