Raj Jobalia

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Research, essays, and working ideas on agent memory, cognition, and the systems forming around AI.

57 pages7.9 mm
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Research paper · August 2026 · 57 pages

The Memory Wall

Why Context, Not Compute, Is the Binding Constraint

An evidence- and arithmetic-led argument that context and memory capacity—not raw compute—are becoming the binding constraint for AI agents, followed by a deterministic and auditable design for ranking what an agent remembers.

57 pages = 29 leaves × 0.10 mm + 2 boards × 2.5 mm = 7.9 mm spine, on a 216 × 279 mm page.

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