Raj Jobalia

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

Cover of The Memory Wall

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.

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Essay · September 2026 · 28 pages

I Can’t Type

When the Model Becomes the First Draft of the Mind

A personal, source-backed essay on cognitive offloading in the frontier-model era, and a human-first protocol for using AI without giving up retrieval, composition, or agency.