Chris Latimer
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@chrislatimer
Co-founder @Vectorizeio. Working on Hindsight https://t.co/wzeEbFpCFl
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I love the idea that Milla Jovovich is getting into open source development with her AI memory solution MemPalace and I was ALMOST going to integrate it into my OpenClaw... But here's why I didn't and why I went with a little known piece of software named Hindsight by @Vectorizeio (though with 7.8k stars on github). What I liked about MemPalace was the idea of really efficiently compressing all my conversations with my agents so that they can "remember everything" (long term memory) and then basically injecting an even more compressed version of that memory back into my agent's context window so that my agent always "knows everything" (active memory) without costing me a fortune and eating all my context up. MemPalace aced the marketing of this concept... But unfortunately they didn't nail the execution. I'm not saying that Jovovich is being dishonest in how she promoting this software. It's open source, I don't see an indication they intend to monetize it and I don't really see a path to that anyway (as I will explain next). I think two friends had an idea and they figured out how to execute on it and then they promoted it in a way that felt honest to them. I actually think it's great that a celebrity is promoting open source software development and she deserves a lot of credit for that. I also thing that this is a natural consequence of the democratization of software development that is happening as a result of AI. The number of people creating repos and submitting pull requests is going to grow exponentially and I love that. The problem? There's just better solutions out there. I'm already running one named lossless-claw (github.com/martian-engine…) and that works great. But lossless-claw is a plugin for OpenClaw, I want something that works with my other AI tools as well. I bounce around Codex, Claude Code, and other AI tools all the time and each new session feels like I'm starting from scratch. That's especially the case now that Anthropic has banned OpenClaw. What I REALLY want is a way of SYNCING this knowledge base across my agents so that they all know everything I'm working on, but none of the open source solutions I could find do that. I believe there are some paid ones (maybe @supermemory or @ByteroverDev ) but I'd prefer to explore a self-hosted/OSS solution before introducing a paid dependency into my system. For me, the promise of these open source AI agents is giving everyone real ownership over artificial super intelligence, and the more monthly subscription fees I have to pay to make my assistant function, the less real that feels to me. Doesn't mean I won't pay them, just means I want to minimize them. Hindsight checks all my boxes. It ships with official, first-party plugins/hooks for OpenClaw, Codex, and Claude Code. All three tools point to the same central memory bank. I just set one shared bankId and my agents should all be synced. Every conversation I have in Codex should get automatically compressed, reflected on, and made available in Claude Code (and vice versa). Hindsight is fully open-source (MIT), runs 100% locally if I want, uses my existing LLMs for the background reflection/extraction, and the whole thing is lightweight to operate. It's the right solution for what I'm trying to build which is open source software that turns OpenClaw and Hermes Agent into a real life Jarvis. Long term memory is an important piece of that puzzle and right now, Hindsight seems like the best fit. @mem0ai and @Letta_AI are both strong open-source memory solutions with flexible APIs and good multi-agent capabilities, but they’re general-purpose tools that would have forced me to build a bunch of custom integration work just to get shared memory working across Codex CLI, Claude Code, and OpenClaw. Hindsight has the foundation I need to enable my agents to stay perfectly in sync AND it significantly outperforms both on the major memory benchmarks, hitting 91.4% on LongMemEval compared to Mem0’s 49%, without fudging the numbers like MemPalace.
30 second explanation of the MemPalace by Milla Jovovich. By day she’s filming action movies, walking Miu Miu fashion shows, and being a mom. By night she’s coding. She’s the most creative, brilliant, and hilarious person I know. I’m honored to be working with her on this project… more to come.
