AI Engineer YouTube · May 3, 2026

Context Is the New Code — Patrick Debois, Tessl

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Why it matters

As AI coding agents become more capable, context is starting to matter as much as code. Yet while code has version control, review, testing, CI/CD, and production observability, the prompts, rules, and memory that drive agents are still often managed like ad hoc hacks. Patrick argues that context needs its own engineer

My takeaway: As AI coding agents become more capable, context is starting to matter as much as code. Yet while code has version control, review, testing, CI/CD, and production observability, the prompts, rules, and memory that drive agents are still often managed like ad hoc hacks. Patrick argues that context needs its own engineer