Why Your Agent Needs Memory, Not Just Context

The AI Native Dev - from Copilot today to AI Native Software Development tomorrow
3 March 2026 44 min
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Episode Description
Not onboarding your agent is on you.Richmond Alake, Director of AI Developer Experience at Oracle, joins Simon Maple to make the case that most agent failures come down to one thing: memory. Not the model, not the infrastructure. Memory.On the docket:why skills are just SOPs your organisation already has written downthe job title that is replacing prompt engineersfile systems vs databases for agent memory (and why one gets you hacked)the memory trick that makes agents feel actually intelligentwh

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