Dev Propulsion Labs Sarah Wooders on why LLMs are like Memento and building the infrastructure for stateful AI agents
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Sep 11, 2025 Sarah Wooders, CTO and co-founder of Letta AI, dives into the intriguing world of stateful AI agents. She compares current LLMs to forgetting characters in 'Memento,' emphasizing their lack of memory. Discussing the AI landscape, she suggests 2025 mirrors the early internet's potential. Wooders critiques the distinction between true agents and mere marketing hype, while also stressing the necessity for better standardization in AI protocols. Open-source tools, she argues, are vital for fostering genuine advancements in AI capabilities.
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Keep Selling And Focus On Customers
- Constantly sell and get customer feedback even as a technical founder.
- Prioritize making current customers successful to drive growth and product-market fit.
Open Context Management Matters
- Open sourcing context management gives developers transparency and control over tokens and data.
- Leta keeps orchestration open while commercializing hosting and UI as closed components.
Use Research Content To Market
- Publish research and design posts to educate and attract users for infrastructure tooling.
- Share benchmarks and architectural decisions to build trust and community adoption.