# Flo Crivello

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Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Flo Crivello (Lindy) talking, from an interview on The Cognitive Revolution published Aug 10, 2026.

- Role: Lindy

## What Flo Crivello said

- [Context buckets keep huge histories searchable](https://realalpha.app/s/context-buckets-keep-huge-histories-searchable/)
  The Cognitive Revolution · Aug 10, 2026 · 6 min
  > “And that leads to some really surprising behaviors because you're literally no more than two LLM calls away from being able to access 10,000 context buckets.” — Flo Crivello · [32:43](https://realalpha.app/v/4JYoTE_VKaU/?t=1963)
- [Lindy uses its AI teammate to optimize its own CI](https://realalpha.app/s/lindy-uses-its-ai-teammate-to-optimize-its-own-ci/)
  The Cognitive Revolution · Aug 10, 2026 · 7 min
  > “our number of prs internally has like prs per week has tripled over the last three months” — Flo Crivello · [56:04](https://realalpha.app/v/4JYoTE_VKaU/?t=3364)
- [Flo wants restrictions on Chinese frontier models](https://realalpha.app/s/flo-wants-restrictions-on-chinese-frontier-models/)
  The Cognitive Revolution · Aug 10, 2026 · 8 min
  > “I have something against Chinese frontier models, whether they're open or closed source.” — Flo Crivello · [1:41:49](https://realalpha.app/v/4JYoTE_VKaU/?t=6109)
- [Lindy cut its agent error rate eightfold in a week](https://realalpha.app/s/lindy-cut-its-agent-error-rate-eightfold-in-a-week/)
  The Cognitive Revolution · Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min
  > “It went down by 8x, the error rate.” — Flo Crivello · [24:45](https://realalpha.app/v/4JYoTE_VKaU/?t=1485)
- [Shared memory can be controlled with editable text instructions](https://realalpha.app/s/shared-memory-can-be-controlled-with-editable-text/)
  The Cognitive Revolution · Aug 10, 2026 · 5 min
  > “they have edited their own meta memory prompt and the meta memory prompt is just a text file” — Flo Crivello · [17:26](https://realalpha.app/v/4JYoTE_VKaU/?t=1046)
- [Memory retrieval can improve from logged questions](https://realalpha.app/s/memory-retrieval-can-improve-from-logged-questions/)
  The Cognitive Revolution · Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min
  > “it will restructure its own memory to reduce the number of hops that is needed to retrieve the most frequently asked questions.” — Flo Crivello · [43:16](https://realalpha.app/v/4JYoTE_VKaU/?t=2596)
- [The memory agent learns which Slack channels to ignore](https://realalpha.app/s/the-memory-agent-learns-which-slack-channels-to-ignore/)
  The Cognitive Revolution · Aug 10, 2026 · 4 min
  > “I'm not going to keep spending time on those channels. There's nothing for me to learn there.” — Flo Crivello · [12:48](https://realalpha.app/v/4JYoTE_VKaU/?t=768)
- [A date validator can catch scheduling errors before execution](https://realalpha.app/s/a-date-validator-can-catch-scheduling-errors-before/)
  The Cognitive Revolution · Aug 10, 2026 · 6 min
  > “we've prompted the agent to include a weekday in the date. So it never says July 28th.” — Flo Crivello · [1:24:48](https://realalpha.app/v/4JYoTE_VKaU/?t=5088)

## The episode

- [Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses](https://realalpha.app/v/4JYoTE_VKaU/) · The Cognitive Revolution · Aug 10, 2026