Smart Brevity 4: The signal is narrower than it looks: recency posing as memory, failures that teach, less supervision that wins

Podcast: Smart Brevity · Jamiepluscoffee

Opublikowano: 2026-10-10

The signal is narrower than it looks: recency posing as memory, failures that teach, less supervision that wins; Memory-need stratification: pooled memory scores mostly measure recency; Memory framing: calling context "memories" changes how often it gets used; Hindsight-to-foresight distillation: failed runs teach when group rewards are flat; Reliability over coverage: distill only where tokenizers align cleanly; Experience retention: raw logs versus summarized playbooks for learning agents; Cheap discriminative judges for closed-answer evals at volume; Brain and hands split: editable harnesses, cloud reasoning, device actions; Action gating: approval policy plus readable