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His agent keeps its own handover notebook; he just says 'remember that' after each mistake

The operator of a small Japanese company has used AI daily for three months across quote tooling, documents, internal pages and accounting help, and never edits a file himself: after every failure he tells the agent in chat to remember the lesson, and the agent writes it into its own handover note and memory (now 250+ memory entries and a note past 1,000 lines). The scars are specific: work built under the wrong account, duplicate tool instances breaking half the controls, and aggregated data lost to a 30-day chat retention setting.

How it works

  1. Owner asks for work in plain chat: quotes, documents, internal pages, accounting help
  2. When something fails, he says 'remember that, and be careful next time'
  3. Agent writes the lesson, with its reason and date, into its handover note or memory itself
  4. Each new session starts by reading the note
  5. Memory passes 250 entries in three months and is re-indexed by topic at his request
  6. His public tools site is built entirely through these conversations

Why it’s worth knowing

The memory is maintained entirely by the agent: the human's whole configuration interface is one spoken sentence after each failure, and the notebook still grew past a thousand lines.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on note.com. See the original ↗

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