Nathan is the founder of Aether, the memory layer for AI agents. He works on the retrieval engine, the SDKs, and the infrastructure that keeps agent memory fast, durable, and multi-tenant.
The least fashionable decision we made building Aether: instead of putting a memory layer on top of an existing store, we wrote our own engine in Rust. Here's the reasoning — and what it cost us — behind flat-rate, single-binary agent memory.