The latest articles on DEV Community by Shreyas Guha Neogi (@crimsoncodie09). https://dev.to/crimsoncodie09 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3805078%2Ffb24efe6-8b85-4397-96d9-ce5896a4e499.jpeg https://dev.to/crimsoncodie09 en Shreyas Guha Neogi Sat, 30 May 2026 08:39:07 +0000 https://dev.to/crimsoncodie09/future-of-ai-better-memory-over-reasoning-1h2l https://dev.to/crimsoncodie09/future-of-ai-better-memory-over-reasoning-1h2l <p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hermes-agent-2026-05-15">Hermes Agent Challenge</a></em></p> <h1> Most AI Agents Are Forgetful. Hermes Agent Is Betting That Memory Matters More Than Intelligence. </h1> <p>Every few weeks, a new AI agent framework appears. For about ten minutes, it feels revolutionary.</p> <p>Then reality kicks in.</p> <p>The agent forgets everything. Fancy Reasoning over lacklustre memory.</p> <p>Hermes Agent is interesting because it treats intelligence as something that compounds. This changes everything. </p> <p>That is the insight I would carry forward from it.</p> <p>Hermes is not only about planning or tool use or multi-step reasoning, although it does those things. It is about turning repeated work into remembered work, and turning remembered work into better future work.</p> <p>If the next generation of agent systems is going to matter, it will not be because they can produce a good one-off answer.</p> <p>It will be because they can learn the shape of the work, keep that knowledge, and become more useful every time they are used.</p> <p>Hermes is pushing in that direction.</p> <p>IMO, that is why it is worth building on.</p> <p>TL;DR Hermes is one of the few agent systems explicitly designed around the idea that accumulated knowledge should survive beyond a single session.</p> hermesagentchallenge devchallenge agents