Context engine

Building Agents Is Trivial Now, Context Is the Next Frontier — Jeff Ng, Unblocked

Building Agents Is Trivial Now, Context Is the Next Frontier — Jeff Ng, Unblocked

Building AI agents is now easier than ever, but they frequently make confident yet incorrect decisions. This is because agents often lack critical context that humans provide, such as historical discussions, postmortems, and tribal knowledge. The solution proposed is a 'context engine' that synthesizes and grounds information from across an organization's documents, code, tickets, and conversations, providing agents with a holistic and reconciled view, thus bridging the 'context gap' that current LLMs often miss.

Mergeable by default: Building the context engine to save time and tokens — Peter Werry, Unblocked

Mergeable by default: Building the context engine to save time and tokens — Peter Werry, Unblocked

A practitioner's guide to building a context engine, the reasoning layer that provides AI agents with the necessary organizational context to generate effective and appropriate code. The talk debunks common myths about RAG and large context windows, outlines core requirements for a robust context engine, and shares lessons learned from production.