For the last nine months I've worked on agent memory and almost nothing else. Up front: what I set out to build turned out to be a product that cannot exist. This series is about how I got there. Part 1 is the beginning, and the question of why memory in the first place.
It started in front of the TV
Last November, Google shipped Antigravity, an agent IDE that runs Gemini 3 and Claude Opus side by side. I installed it and fell in. Until then, AI coding for me meant pasting code into a chat window and carrying the answers back. Useful, but mostly for trimming repetitive work. Antigravity was different. You gave it a job and a result came back.
The same scene repeated every night after that. I'd come home, put the kids to bed, and sit in front of the TV with a laptop. Hand the agent some work, then stare at what it produced. That's how vibe coding started for me.
Nova, my first agent
