Writing by Jay Zeng
A place for ideas that need more room.
Essays on applied AI, agent infrastructure, platform engineering, and the organizations that build them.
On the desk
Working theses, made shareable.
A small body of writing on the interfaces, infrastructure, and organizational choices behind AI-native systems.
Agent memory · Field report
Memory you can inspect
What 100+ coding-agent sessions taught me about local, durable, inspectable memory—and the boundary between a session and what the next agent should know.
Read essay 02Agents & architecture
The semantic layer agents are missing
Software built for agents needs to expose meaning, intent, and safe action—not merely endpoints.
Read essay 03Agent memory
Memory is infrastructure, not a prompt trick
Useful memory is a lifecycle: capture, retrieval, context budgeting, correction, and recovery.
Read essay 04Engineering organizations
What AI-native engineering actually changes
Coding assistance is the visible edge. The deeper change is how organizations express and move intent.
Read essayFour essays. More only when the idea earns the space.
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