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A split from neuroscience (cortex vs hippocampus) is the best explanation I’ve found for why AI agents fail on real company work

There's a split from neuroscience I can't stop thinking about as the real reason AI agents fail inside companies. Treat it as an analogy, not a literal claim, but it keeps holding. Your brain runs two memory systems (Complementary Learning Syst…

Pretrained LLMs are a "cortex" with no "hippocampus," and I think that is why they fail on real company work.

Here's an argument I've been chewing on: the reason pretrained LLMs fail on real company work is structural, and it maps cleanly onto how human memory is organized. Treat the mapping as an analogy, not a literal claim. Your brain runs two memor…