Research
Notes on databases, AI agents, and the deterministic-signals bet behind SnoutData.
- A Rule Is Only a Rule Once It PredictsThe boundary law from the last post was an observation on one backend. We took it to PostgreSQL, a backend it was never fit to, and watched a single error class split along the same line.
- We Built the One Honest OpeningWe built the failure-only, deterministic memory the last post argued for, then measured it: the mechanism, the first numbers, and the flat negative that taught us the most.
- Your Agent's "Memory" Is Not LearningPersistence and learning are different things. Almost everything sold as agent memory is the first one wearing the second one's clothes, and here is the actual line between them.