A Lesson Is a Failure Plus the Change That Fixed It: Surprise as the Write Signal for Agent Memory
Agent memory writes what the model decides to save, or it writes everything. Animals and people learn on surprise instead. For a coding agent the surprise has a mechanical shape: a command failed, something changed, and the same command passed. Without the change, it was a retry. Every agent memory…
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- 2026-10-23 18:08 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
A Lesson Is a Failure Plus the Change That Fixed It: Surprise as the Write Signal for Agent Memory