Give your AI a small brain, not a library

Last week in a workshop about agents I showed something I usually keep for another training course: the second brain that my agents use. A participant immediately asked what the difference is with a knowledge base where you put all your knowledge. Good question, because I know companies that are doing exactly that: putting their entire knowledge management into one large knowledge base, so that AI can access it everywhere. A logical thought. And exactly the mistake I made myself.

I once put everything I had written and created over the past few years into one knowledge base. Presentations, texts, documents, notes. Everything in one place, for my AI. It did not work at all. My assistant choked on it.