On retiring a name

I've taken down the writeup that used to live here.

It described a personal knowledge-graph tool I'd built and named Engram. After I published it, I learned about ly-wang19/engram — an open-source bi-temporal memory engine for LLM agents, published before mine and backed by a paper (arXiv:2606.09900). The overlap was real: the same name, the same bi-temporal framing, the same idea of keeping a fact's history instead of overwriting it.

As best I can tell I arrived there independently — but that doesn't really matter. They were first, and they did the rigorous, benchmarked work to earn the idea. So I'm not going to stand on their ground. I've retired the name, taken down the piece that used it, and I'm choosing a new one.

If you came here looking for a reproducible, paper-backed memory engine, go read their project — it's the real thing in that lane.

Credit where it's due. The thunder is theirs.

— Ulric