066 - Context Engineering: The New Skill Developers Need

Opublikowano: 2026-09-26

Coding agents can now work across whole repositories, use tools, and handle longer software tasks, which makes context engineering an increasingly practical skill: deciding what an agent should know, how it discovers that information, and when it should receive it. This episode explains why more context isn't automatically better, and why building the environment around an AI agent is becoming part of building the software itself. It draws on Martin Fowler and Thoughtworks' definition of context engineering as curating what a model sees to get a better result, covering instructions, guidance...