{"id":33912,"date":"2026-06-23T09:58:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/htap-summit\/session-replays\/\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:57:03","slug":"the-memory-wall-why-ai-agents-fail-and-how-to-fix-them","status":"publish","type":"session-replay","link":"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/ko\/tidb-scaile-summit\/session-replays\/the-memory-wall-why-ai-agents-fail-and-how-to-fix-them\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0The Memory Wall: Why AI Agents Fail (and how to fix them)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s AI agents run on duct tape: separate systems for transactions, analytics, and vectors, stitched together with brittle ETL pipelines and growing engineering overhead. 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