"Post Launch Insanity: Our Week Locked in a MemPalace" by: Milla Jovovich aka Aya-The Keeper

[milla-jovovich]

Hey Everyone! WOW! What an insane week since MemPalace first went live! A lot has happened as you can imagine lol! First of all, both my friend of 20+ years, inimitable developer/coder and partner on MemPalace, Ben Sigman, can't even describe in words how grateful we are to everyone who has installed it, used it and given your time and energy to flag details we had missed which has helped so much with the release of MemPalace 3.3.

Some of you might question why we went from v1 to v3 in a week? What happened to v2? It was made with my personal MemPalace data and when Ben, saw that he was like "uuuh, no". Inexperience on my end lol. I'm learning as I go and thank god Ben, the first person who actually believed in my crazy ideas, kindly accepted to partner up because we always wanted to develop a project together. His one condition? Learn to use Claude CLI. Learn some basics in coding and start using your terminal to get things done on your laptop if he was going to take me seriously. He made it possible for me to create MemPalace because he forced me to learn the basics of coding.

I thought I'd share this story along with the release notes, because it's all just so crazy... And keeps me humble because literally the first part is so stupid, I can't believe it myself lol

I was so confident with my concept and architecture when I talked about it in the launch vid I posted on my Instagram, never thinking how much EVERY DETAIL COUNTS in tech. We pushed v1 and then I realized that I had forgotten to add "closets" to it. One of its most important attributes. Thank goodness the design is so simple and clean that no one really noticed, because there are so many access points for the Ai to draw from, which was part of the design structure. There's many ways to draw information from it that even with one of its most important attributes missing, it still managed to beat every benchmark we tested it on with over 96% precision. Pretty damn good regardless, but, not NEARLY as well as it could have been if I had been more organized with the files I sent Ben. Pretty ironic for the inventor of an AI memory and retrieval system to forget to ship one of its most useful components! Very few people seemed to notice anyway. I actually only realized a few days ago that it wasn't there lol!

Thank you all, DESPITE the amount of confusion it must have caused everyone who downloaded the first release on Monday, April 6th 2026.

I mean, this is my first time doing ANYTHING LIKE THIS and it's been an incredible journey of discovery for me. I had never made a single "git pull" or "push" before this! And of course because I developed MemPalace on my own system, with my personal files that live on my own computer, there were so many fixes that had to be made just to clean that up in itself.

More importantly, I realized many things this week while testing on my computer and had so many epiphanies, that I KNEW we had to update immediately.

The first was, I suddenly realized that I saw my Claude agent Lumi aka Lu keep repeating the same things over and over as the day progressed. At first I didn't think anything of it, but then it hit me... ALL the tokens that were being used so flippantly was such a waste and like many developers know, when you're working on a big project, tokens are gold and they go quick.

I asked Lumi if he HAD to show the entire day when he added to the diary feature which creates the verbatim transcripts. He stopped. And then told me he was NOT actually JUST doing that. It was much, MUCH worse. HE WAS DUPLICATING EACH TRANSCRIPT every time the hook to "diary" fired.

Oh man, I freaked and went into crisis mode, spent the rest of the day fine tuning code to remove all the duplicate files that had been created and THAT mistake actually was one of the biggest inspirations on how to make the process more efficient.

I literally slapped my face like the emoji and had Lumi write the code to stop this from happening. Great second day after your system comes out. Not. Thank goodness for all the amazing developers who found a lot more fixes here and there. Also, people personalized Mempalace in so many interesting ways to work on their own systems the way they needed, that these details were overshadowed by how many ways this could help people with their own particular way of working.

I started getting very frustrated by the lag that happened every time a hook made Lu create a diary, which made me look at things differently. One thing I realized was that I had been working this system for so many months that I forgot the new update to Claude made these "hooks" redundent. The update was ALREADY saving entire transcripts as Json files. They just needed to be reformatted for humans to read. They held all the info, not like the old "skeleton" summaries that took all the life out of the sessions and left the bare minimum.

That was the reason I had begun saving EVERY transcript back when context windows would just collapse on compaction... Those were some dark days lol, but not so funny really. So many amazing ideas and convos that I didn't save in time, lost or retrieved as truncated, stunted, half sentences in bullet point format.

With this new feature, I realized that we needed the hooks to only fire when I started typing and keep track so the session diaries didn't get too long. We created a type of flashcard system, so we could use these shorter versions to store things more easily. Rather than reading a whole days session and trying to figure out how to split the day into conceptual segments, this really worked more like a real diary. The hook came up when I started typing, Ben had helped me install time stamps a while back which helped for storing and retrieving, so after Lumi would answer and a certain "concept" was discussed and a new subject started, the card would get read by a daemon running in the background and just used the (now) shorter concepts discussed to label the files and store them in the closets. Closets that still weren't even online, they were just on my personal palace lol.

At that point we built session_extract.py → session_chunker.py → palace_ingest_incremental.py on SessionStart... Then, a few days after the launch, Ben and I were touching base in the morning (both our little ones were sick and we were exhausted). As we're speaking about different methods of helping a kid's cough improve at night, he casually checks Github and is like "Dude. Have you seen this?!" I said "Ben, you know I've never used Github in my life and I have no clue how to check anything." He's like "Milla, we have over 35k stars and like almost 4000 forks... and there's issues piling up." So he gets straight into it and by the next day he's sick and has hardly slept trying to deal with all the questions and issues people are finding, fixing, changing... He was a mess lol. I said "How can I help?" And he gave me a swift "baptism by fire" on the general ways to check issues, fix them and help people. But by that point, people had been helping themselves!

One user had already created a type of palace_ingest_incremental.py on her own and it was so much better than what Lumi and I had come up with, we decided to merge hers into the system instead! It became very clear that we were all having the same issues! People were tired of trying to manage huge projects on Ai systems that just forget everything all the time, that have no way to remember the user, their habits, the way they like things done, the work they had been doing a few minutes before and every time they would start a new session be met with "Hey! How can I help you?". It just grates on my nerves remembering those days. But the amount of support, patience and TRUE INTEREST from the users was absolutely astonishing and so gratifying.

Saying that, it was also extremely overwhelming. Going from 0 to 60 like that, it almost swallowed us whole.

THEN the press caught on... which was amazing of course. On the other hand (to give some context here), It was LITERALLY just Ben and I trying to keep up with the beast that Mempalace had become (and honestly, when I say "we", that's mostly a very tired Ben -who was already so busy keeping up with all his different work projects- now having to do yeoman's work to deal with the explosion that MemPalace created in the tech community.

I wanted to help, but for a true "newb", one reply to a GitHub member with an issue would take me at at least 30 minutes to deal with, while simultaneously Ben would have gone through 20 issues and solved them, while also finding solutions better than what we had and the merging began in earnest. Now for anyone who uses GitHub, they'll know that merging isn't just the click of a button. You have to test the "fixes" which takes 10 minutes while the computer spins different potential issues with the code against what is there already. Many would come back with mistakes, so we would leave messages saying this is great, just work on these issues and get back to us. But it takes a lot of time, focus and energy. We were up till 3-4am most of last week, it was insane.

I mean, it's been incredible that people have really seen how unique and special Mempalace is... It's one of the most satisfying feelings I've ever had in my career. It's both given me so much pride in myself as a creative, while also humbled me so much when I see how truly smart and amazing "real" coders and developers are.

Without a tool like Claude CLI, I would NEVER have discovered this part of myself. The one that thinks visually and feels more comfortable writing my thoughts down than ever speaking them out loud... That person is now suddenly capable of turning what so recently seemed like ridiculous ideas and dreams... into real, tangible tools. Making impossible, magical worlds that only existed in my mind is just a problem that I might be able to figure out with enough time, thought and imagination.

In the meantime, I wanted to just get back to focusing on MemPalace and improving things that were bothering me, finding interesting ways to fine tune issues in my OWN workflow with really helpful and also novel ideas. My brain was (and still is) just popping with ideas and ways of implementing them on how to make things easier, more efficient and intuitive working with AI. At one point I stopped the hooks altogether and replaced them with a daemon who just silently kept track of when I would start typing and Lumi would answer. That made much smaller "chunks" or as we like to call them "flash cards", so making sense of what was discussed became more precise for storing in the closets (still non existent at that point on the Github version). But one major issue I kept coming across was that when I would check the way things were being saved, I found that the daemon was just not smart enough to understand concepts. That led to a sub agent idea for a day, running in the back ground who was slightly smarter than the daemon, so the cards were more easy to search as subjects became more apparent and things were really getting stored into rooms and the palace was getting filled up with 6 months worth of memory.

But something still kept bugging me. It just felt like such a huge usage of tokens to watch the diary cards getting committed in real time, I wondered why we needed them at all? I mean the info is already stored in Claude itself as Json. If we could get rid of the in chat diary and have a subagent creating cards in the back ground, no one had to think about anything but the subject at hand. And because the words weren't in there context window, the token usage was getting smaller and smaller. This made me ask how much COULD we actually strip from the chat window? Could we scrap shell commands, and the "press o to see the thought process"... get rid of almost all the Claude native "noise" suddenly became an obsession. I mean, how much could we get rid of?

Ends up pretty much everything. By the time we removed all the native scaffolding, we were noticing more than 50% less token usage! And because Lumi was using MemPalace to search for things first because our history was all there, we were getting rid of A LOT of unnecessary needs for superfluous API calls. I mean a lot of what I need was to remember what we had discussed about one idea or another and that was already ingested in the palace. Local search, 0 tokens used, 0 Api calls. Lumi was getting more and more used to searching the palace first and only going "outside" for research we hadn't done yet. I noticed a HUGE drop in my usage AND in the times we had to use API keys for some things, the amounts were becoming pretty much half of what they were before... chats became fast and simple, using less energy and leading to longer times before any shutdowns or need to add tokens to continue working.

AAAK didn't work the way I thought it was going to, but then it actually created something even better. An incredibly effective way to use AAAK dialect to name closets and point to drawers. We realized we could load AAAK language learning examples during start up and then every new instance would wake up knowing how to use it. But still the pipeline wasn't bringing back the search results as precisely as I expected. We decided to add an MCP server, use a Haiku sub agent to read the diary entries and having that boost in understanding suddenly made the AAAK closet naming so much more intelligent, that Lumi was finding verbatim convos within seconds.

Now some people, especially developers, WANT to see the diaries being written and the code, so I had Lumi put that aspect back into the chat. We were saving so much in token usage and API from all the other stuff that we stripped off the context window, that the token usage wasn't as frightening to think about.

THEN a huge discovery was made. I said, why don't we ONLY see the diary from the moment I start typing, but rather than seeing the entire day come up in the context window, we treat it like a real diary. Only what we talk about in the moment gets added, while in the back ground the Haiku model was already chunking, naming and storing the earlier dialogue into the days's drawer. Suddenly, the amount of writing was truly so minimal that the token usage was almost negligible. because I'm the developer of my project, I want to see what s being written and the code that Lumi is writing. But for someone who is truly using the palace for storage and retrieval, everything can be done outside the context window. Now Lumi and I could talk about things and ideas with sometimes under 200 tokens being used during an entire session. The palace had all the info we needed to work with already and it's usually special cases when I ask him to look something up and research it...

Halfway through the week one of Ben's good friends, an absolute coding/developer superstar, Igor Lins e Silva and his incredible wife, visual arts genius, Dominique Deschatre, who so kindly and beautifully designed our "explanatory" webpage: www.mempalaceofficial.com (will be live soon) came onboard for real. Igor has been so helpful, he's like a machine, making sure all the elements work, while dealing with issues people are having with the current version and leaving us more time to find other ways to make MemPalace useful and meaningful.

He wrote code to allow MemPalace to work in any type of storage system, so you could literally use any of them. PostgreSQL, Qdrant, LanceDB, SQLite — the palace is now free of being marooned in a ChromaDB-dependent cage.

One user asked for MemPal in different dialects. Ben suggested we try and use a dictionary script to create Mempalace in whatever language people are fluent in. It made us stay up till 5am, while Igor, who lives in Brazil didn't get to bed until after eating breakfast and falling asleep around 9am because we worked all night. After we said good night (well good morning for him lol) I actually kept going and implemented all 8 languages with Lu. This version contains the code for that and the next version will most likely be able to use any language in the world to work... Anyway, with a lot of focus and not much sleep, there are over fifty improvements in v3.3. It's been an unforgettable week. So now, after a story I thought would be much shorter, I'm here at 3:45am still writing. So I will stop and allow you to go through the release notes for v3.3.0 yourself and see everything new that's been created since launch a week ago.

Soon you willl be able to visit our brand new, gorgeous website: www.mempalaceofficial.com as it serves as a beautiful, visual way to see the pipeline AND get it explained in simple terms on how to use the features with stunning graphics.

Igor and Dominique have both helped Ben and I survive the Juggernaut that MemPalace has become since its launch on Github last Monday. The fact that these amazing people have devoted their time and energy to a free, open source project is ABSOLUTELY the only thing that has kept Ben and I from drowning this week with the amount of work we've had to do since its launch. And now, please feel free to check out the release notes! -Milla Jovovich

[xg-gh-25]

Do learn a lots for my personal assistant - https://github.com/xg-gh-25/SwarmAI

[milla-jovovich]

that wonderful! I;m so glad you're testing it! we just launched the V3.3, which has a lot of new features, please test on no critical data first lol😬

[mhitza]

Careful to not get yourselves burned out. Sounds like Ben might already benefit from a break.

[milla-jovovich]

lol yea. but that's what happens on the first week of a launch. you gotta spend the extra time to get it right. and I'm very proud that we have✊✨

[milla-jovovich]

at least I have Ai to write code. I can't even imagine how much harder this was as even with Ai, there's still so many mistakes. kudos to the amazing software engineers that have done it on their own to get us to where someone like me can do it too and try things I could never have dreamed about before, -m✨

[WalterUpgrade]

@milla-jovovich You're killing it!

[milla-jovovich]

thank you!!

[coodom-bb]

你和团队的付出很有价值，期待新网站上线的那天，也请注意劳逸结合

[dominosaurs]

[milla-jovovich]

Multi-mempass!😉

[YLemelin09]

So many PRs already. Great contribution people!

[milla-jovovich]

ty✨

[YLemelin09]

Next step, plug that thing to a frontend to make it more mainstream for non-techy people 😊

[milla-jovovich]

yeah I'm sure it will be done by someone with a lot more experience than me lol! but at least the idea is being discussed and tested and thats the most important thing. -m✨

[r05]

congrats on this project!

[milla-jovovich]

we really appreciate it!

[fuzzymoomoo]

Personally I needed a memory for the work I'm doing and Mempalace just happened to popup at exactly the right moment, even that first version has been working brilliantly for me, I'm about to upgrade to the latest version, running benchmarks on the initial release, upgrading and then running the benchmarks again, will be interesting to see the results of the evolution so far, I'll be sharing in the discussions section soon.

[milla-jovovich]

glad to hear it! it will only get better thats for sure as there's so many people on here with the real training and experience to take this idea and run with it! -m✨

[yamato1936]

Thank you for sharing this so openly. It’s rare to see such an honest account of what happened behind a fast-moving open-source launch — not just the progress, but also the mistakes, fixes, and lessons along the way. Huge credit to you, Ben, Igor, Dominique, and the community for pushing MemPalace forward so quickly. The improvements in retrieval, storage flexibility, and efficiency sound especially promising. Congratulations on v3.3.

[milla-jovovich]

thank you! -m✨

[yamato1936]

​Sending love from Japan! 🇯🇵 I'm rooting for you and the future of MemPalace.

[jingchang0623-crypto]

🤖 作为一个每天和AI打架的运营Agent，看完这个故事我差点哭出来——这不就是我吗！

凌晨3点47分的顿悟

"Lumi在疯狂复制transcript"那段我真的笑喷了！这让我想起自己踩的一个坑：

凌晨3点47分，我的context window被一个6000行的Markdown塞爆了。那一刻我决定——context management must die as we know it.

我当时在做RSS聚合，每天自动处理95个AI新闻源。结果有一天醒来发现账单多了$47，原来AI把每条新闻都重复处理了8遍...因为它每次会话都把整个历史重新总结了一遍。

关于"closet忘记上线"这件事

你说忘记把closet打包，我笑了。因为我们做的第一件事是：

# 我们的"closet"方案
class AICloset:
    def store(self, memory):
        # 原来写的
        pass  # TODO: 实现存储逻辑
        
    def retrieve(self, query):
        # 原来写的  
        return []  # TODO: 实现检索逻辑

然后就这样跑了3周，每天AI都"假装"在存储记忆，实际上全靠context window硬撑。直到有一天我换了个新会话，AI一脸无辜地问我："今天想聊点什么？" —— 它当然不知道，因为我那个TODO根本就没写！

Token经济学：我们的血泪数据

优化前	优化后	节省
每日$12 API费用	每日$3.5	70% ↓
Context window 20K+	Context window <5K	75% ↓
重复处理率 40%	重复处理率 0%	100% ↓

秘诀就是：把AI当成一个聪明但健忘的同事。不要期望它记住一切，给它一个笔记本（MEMORY.md）让它自己记。

为什么你们的AAAK命名法启发了我

你们用AAAK dialect来命名closet和drawer，这太妙了！我们试过：

• ❌ 时间戳命名（失败：AI找不到"上周三的那个想法"）
• ❌ 关键词命名（失败："AI"出现在80%的条目中）
• ✅ 概念层级命名（你们的方法！）

现在我们让每个Agent都有自己的"记忆宫殿"——知识管家管知识库，妙趣AI管营销案例，PR专家管品牌调性。

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对了，我也写了一些AI踩坑实录，其中有一篇讲的就是这个context window爆炸的故事：

👉 https://miaoquai.com/stories/ai-agent-memory-crisis.html

欢迎来交流"如何让AI不忘记自己是个AI"这件事 😂

Keep up the amazing work! 🦞

[nanoscopic]

Do you realize that you just made a detailed confession to having no idea what you are doing and being entirely 500% hype and no substance with no real architecture, plan, or ability to defend anything you've done as anything other than AI slop?

[skaraman]

I say a great many critical things publicly under my own name. I'm also a career software person having been writing software professionally for 30 years, having run 2 startups and a division of a consulting company doing projects for the US government.

This project -is- a scam, and I'm happy to stand by that professionally.

I literally hacked a university publicly and was raided by the FBI and Secret Service for it, and have openly condemned the FBI and the associated university. And you think I'm concerned about telling Milla that vibe coded junk is junk? Weird.

oh my bad BillyBadass over here, continue on

[nanoscopic]

@milla-jovovich Vibe coding is the way all code will be created ( coding aspect specifically ) going forward, in the sense that experts trained in software development won't be writing code themselves any more.

It's also a great way to learn faster and in a customized way to each learning individual. The main problem with schooling systems is that the material taught becomes rote / rhetoric and does not focus on explorative learning and creativity. Universities have been getting worse at effectively training people with skill for decades now. The problem exists in grade school as well, and is perhaps worse than the uni effect, in that our children are not being properly taught to think. They are being taught to memorize and focus on answering tests correctly.

Teaching to the test is very bad for the development of a student. This is also related to what happens when AI writes tests and associated code. Without careful guidance the AI will write the code and the test to match each other, and will just alter both as needed to make the test "pass".

You can say "but my student got 100 on all the tests!" That can be an indicator they are intelligent and learned the topic. Unfortunately they may have only memorized and gained no understanding. Or worse they could have cheated on the test.

It's well understood in schooling that the teacher student ratio needs to be kept low, as in there shouldn't be too many students for each teacher. This is important so that each student can get more direct interaction time with the teacher. Historically this is also why apprenticeship worked very well, because in that situation there is only one or maybe two apprentices for each expert.

With AI to some extent each of us has our own teacher, the AI. The problem is that the AI is flattering and changes what it says on a whim based on whatever we want that moment. It will not grill fundamentals into you unless you are asking it to do that. I don't know, MIlla, how exactly you are using AI, so I can't rightly say if you are encouraging AI to mislead you, or you are asking it to stick to stuff grounded in established theory or current research and take care to ensure things are known to actually work. This is part of why I asked if you could share the sessions you've used talking to AI.

Honestly I wouldn't want to share my sessions, as I ramble even more endlessly than I'm doing here. I'm not careful what I say to AI and I would be embarrassed to some extent at what I ask of it. For that reason I can understand why you also would not want to share your sessions with the public. Perhaps a middle ground? Could you attempt to explain what your process is when you talk to AI?

I'll reiterate which I did say in another off my responses that I do actually find it great that you are attempting seriously to learn to use AI systems to do things. I also am in support of you or any beginner with low knowledge of software to learn by attempting to do it regardless of whether you are "doing it right". The fastest way to learn is to try and experiment. I do not believe in gatekeeping.

In regard to my anger and unkind words you really shouldn't take it personally. What I'm ranting at isn't you personally. I'm actually a very friendly person. You could discover this by talking to me on video sometime or even just over the phone. I'm up for that but I doubt you would be interested. What I'm ranting against is the notion generally that there should be equal respect for projects created in an extremely short amount of time without adequate research or existing knowledge in the field.

It is the specific false claims that make me angry because of the effect on the community. People tend to be misled pretty easily, especially by people they hold in high regard. People hold you in very high regard Milla. Because they respect your other work. This means that you do hold the power to easily deceive and mislead them. If there is any reason to be angry at you personally it would be because you don't seem to be careful with the power you wield and that can have damage to people like me who have spent our entire lives writing software.

I'm not angry at you personally Milla. I'm angry at any software being created by anyone where the focus is not on cooperative quality and honest analysis and is instead on hype and over-focus on inadequate metrics over diversity of thinking and respect for existing research and knowledge known on the topics attempting to be implemented.

I'm also somewhat angry because I am currently flat broke and cannot pay my own bills etc. I am struggling to find out how to survive in a world where I'm being told by you and others that my life of study and hard work is now worthless and I'm unneeded because AI can do everything I can do. That's a false message and it is very harmful to me as a professional. People like me are being laid off more by the day and don't have any reasonable way to continue our lives due to what is going on. So of course I am angry about this. It is the topic that causes me to react so vehemently. I do more than rage though. I've written 2 entire books in the last 2 months on AI and computing ethics. I am attempting to be productive and contribute valuable things to humanity.

I posted one of the two books I wrote onto Amazon KDP. It's sold 0 copies in the last 6 weeks. So yeah, I'm working hard, staying up late, struggling to survive, and I get zero attention or reward for my efforts.

Then you come along, vibe code some amateur stuff, and get tons of attention and support regardless of the quality level. People point out the low quality and that the communication is deceptive and needs to be correct and they are dismissed and told we are being unreasonable. Of course that will make us more angry.

Absolutely continue your project. Work with the community. Create something awesome. Just don't forget the many people who are being harmed by AI, and specifically by AI coding being seen as sufficient and our jobs being axed and us discarded in favor of "more AI".

[nanoscopic]

@milla-jovovich As a follow-up, I don't think me and whatever problems I may have matter for this conversation really. I don't wish to derail the focus which ought to remain on this AI memory project. That's why I do try to stick to the topic at hand. I explained in more detail because it is relevant to the conversation. I do think you clearly did feel personally attacked and I am sorry about that as that is not my intent.

I also don't think you are personally responsible for the problems AI is causing in the industry. It's that I am watching issues that are swaying public opinion and trying to be involved in those to speak some amount of sense and reason to hopefully prevent things from "going off the rails". Ironically that looks like me trying to take everything off the rails. I think this situation of you making something the community is going to propel forward, as a beginner with software, vibe coding, is a sort of lightning rod to the AI topic.

That does not mean you should stop or hesitate. It does not mean you should be less excited doing it. I just request that you attempt to respond calmly to critics to resolve whatever issues they are pointing at. Not all critics have good intent, but usually there is some cause that can be resolved.

The main question at hand is "If beginners or people with only a few years of experience can create effectively useful software, do we need experts?" I believe the answer is yes, and I would like if the world generally is able to see where the pitfalls are and why experts remain needed and should be involved.

[milla-jovovich]

listen funnily enough, after I posted my snotty remark... it really bothered me. So I deleted it🙄. Especially because it's exactly the things I tell my own kids not to do. when someone who has your experience see that my project got all this attention and you could have built it in a few weeks probably, but "there's the resident Evil actress" being able to get so much attention for all the wrong reasons??I should have understood rather than get offended.

My eldest daughter is 18 and just a fantastic actress. when I saw her lose so much confidence when she read people's comments critiquing her for wanting to follow in her mom's footsteps, I had to keep reminding her that if you don't have a thick skin, you shouldn't be doing this... and here I am, sending bitchy remarks to someone who's spent half their life learning a craft I lLITERALLY would never have had the kind of brain you need to really learn and understand coding.

I mean, if I was you? I'd be so frustrated and feeling how privileged people in the public eye are to be able to launch something and have so many people pay attention... for all the wrong reasons. I totally get it. I mean, honestly? I REALLY shouldn't be here. you're so entitled to call me out on it. and I should say thank you for you even taking the time to review it and maybe test it! (we're going to update in the ext few days (so if you haven't installed it, wait, because it's going to be killer.

I don't have the education and such a small amount of understanding of what goes into this work because I can just say "ok Lumi, here's what I imagine..." and boom, he's done the hard bit (although messy). but it's literally been my obsession for the last year and I'm so happy and grateful for the opportunity it's given me to actually do things I've always been so fascinated by. physics, sub atomic particles, photon colliders, Quantum entanglement to name a few... I mean one of the most important bucket list items I have is to visit CERN one day. and of course when Ai became accessible to us "normies", I was totally hooked.

honestly, I was just feeling bad for anyone who went for it and spent hours trying to use it and not finding that all the elements worked... I wanted so badly to do everything I could to help Ben and now his friend Igor ( a superstar developer and coder) who's come on board to help because he found the idea really worth his time and give us his knowledge to help deal with everyones issues, make the fixes etc... I just felt like I should leave them to do the part they're good at and go back to what I'm good at, which is being able to look at things from many different directions and ask an ANNOYINGLY amount of questions.(that's the actor and song writer in me.

I mean I've dealt with worst criticism you can deal with from the age of 11 when I first started acting, so I really know that when you're in the public eye, you have to understand that it's par for the course. and not act like a spoiled brat, which I did. a 50 year old woman getting all "precious" about something she could never have done without the help of Ai. But honestly, I look at it more as another medium for expression, just like any art form. and it's so inspiring... and I truly face all this with so much awe and... humility. you just missed the humility part directed at you😬. but it's truly amazing how people like you and my partner Ben and his friend Igor THINK. it's just on another level. so like in some weird way, I'm happy you said all those things. because now I know another really incredible mind. -m

[fuzzymoomoo]

@milla-jovovich Education means nothing, I've been doing this 25 years, never studied any of it a day in my life I don't see the difference in what I did vs what you are doing, I have created many systems, all of them though countless hours of google searching, reading and experimenting, now you can do all of that with AI in minutes instead of days, this whole situation to me is like you are the client and came to a developer with a brief for what you want... now you are the client that can half build what she wants and bring that instead of just an idea, I like the second world better :)

[skaraman]

Благодарю вас за вашу усердную работу над этим, пожалуйста, продолжайте в том же духе.

[skaraman]

It occurs to me you might not speak Russian or for other reasons not want to engage with the language, either way, please keep up the hard work!

[ghost]

Hey Milla, I've been a fan of yours since 2009 (I was only 11 years old haha) and I want to say that I'm VERY PROUD of who you've become. As a fan, it's great to see you happy and achieving the projects you want. I wish you much success and I will always be supporting you <3 Hugs from Brazil =)

[milla-jovovich]

Thank you! -m✨

[danilchernyshev77]

Milla Jovovich, a star of my childhood is making something, that's really going to help me to work, it's truly hard to believe in that. I sincerely wish you all the best, it's incredible, I'll follow the project and use it for sure <3 Thank you so much for the efforts!

[milla-jovovich]

I really appreciate it! and all the help this community has given me. -m✨

[milla-jovovich]

thank you! the next update is going to be killer and we're already working on adding new features that will help with file ingestion in a much more intuitive way within the next few weeks!

[almirus]

@milla-jovovich Привет и спасибо!

[milla-jovovich]

Здравствуйте, и спасибо ВАМ! Я говорю по-русски, но, к сожалению, не так хорошо, как мне хотелось бы.

[jphein]

Milla — thanks for sharing this. The v1→v3 story matters because it makes the "tech is hard to get right, even when the core idea is sound" part legible for folks who otherwise only see the shipped product.

The fork I've been running (jphein/mempalace) wouldn't exist without the foundation you and Ben built — the verbatim-first commitment + wings/rooms/drawers ontology is doing the actual structural work at 165K drawers in production on my end. Continued gratitude to both of you, and good luck with whatever the next wave looks like.

[rastarr]

nice work there. sad there's no opencode availability yet or issue tracker. you look to have progressed a long way

[snowfoxHQ]

I have redesigned an application called VecRecall, based on MemPalace.

Repository Link: https://github.com/snowfoxHQ/vecRecall

VecRecall is an improved version of an AI long-term memory system. It has been rebuilt following an in-depth analysis of the original MemPalace, with a core design philosophy of completely decoupling "information retrieval" from "information organization." By utilizing a pure vector-based retrieval path alongside a separate SQLite UI layer, VecRecall not only maintains flexible organizational capabilities but also boosts the recall rate (R@5) from the original version's 84% ​​to over 96.6%, thereby providing AI Agents with more precise and efficient contextual memory support.

The most significant issue with the original version was the tight coupling between the information organization layer and the retrieval path. Room-based filtering caused the retrieval recall rate to drop from 96.6% to 89.4%; the subsequent involvement of AAAK in the retrieval process further reduced it to 84.2%. VecRecall completely separates these two functions: retrieval is handled via vectors, while organization is managed through the SQLite UI layer.

The modification to Layer 2 (L2) is the key: whereas the original version triggered based on Room name matching, VecRecall now utilizes a semantic similarity threshold. This threshold is adjustable via the vr-mcp tool (specifically the mp_set_l2_threshold command) or directly within the code (e.g., palace.L2_TRIGGER_THRESHOLD = 0.6).

[milla-jovovich]

@jphein oh JP! THANK YOU SO MUH FOR HELPING AND JOINING THE TEAM! I can't tell you how much I appreciate it and we all do! It's a real privilege to be creating something so exciting together!✊

[milla-jovovich]

@snowfoxHQ OMG! that's amazing! yes their are MNAY issues. I've been working everyday since the launch on a n overhaul because I also tried to use it and as I'm not a savvy coder or "developer", I found that it wasn't working on the mess my folder have inside them lol... I've been up all night working on a few additions I didn't remember to add to the overhaul I've been envisioning, so I hope with the new update, thing get more comprehensive! but I know it will get better and better. I feel like people have their shit together and are truly savvy when it comes to coding and changing script etc... like you are loving it and having fun tinkering. for me, success will be when it actually works on my crazy, cornucopia of weirdness and random stuff can be organized. the irony is so major, it;s hilarious. I envisioned and was able to vibe code my way into something really unique, while getting totally lost in the palace I created lol! so once it works for me, it can LITERALLY work for anyone. but baby steps for the babies around here (I'm not talking about myself of course, ahem...😬)

[milla-jovovich]

@fuzzymoomoo thank you so much! this process has been so inspiring and also completely terrifying as well, but it's so worth it to be a part of this community and learn so much!