Token-maxxing is dead. Agentic memory is what comes next.

Presented by MongoDB We have been building databases as an industry for roughly 60 years. We have been building AI agents, in the form most people mean when they say the word today, for about 18 months.Sit with that ratio for a second, because it explains almost everything about the state of agentic development right now. Six decades versus a year and a half. We are not in the middle of this learning curve. We are standing at the very bottom of it, squinting up.There is no LAMP stack for agents yet. There is no settled, boring, default set of choices that lets a team stop re-litigating architecture and just ship.One of the earliest lessons came from the industry’s brief obsession with token-maxxing. For a stretch in early 2026, token consumption became a vanity metric. The backlash was fas