AI Engineer YouTube · July 14, 2026

WTF Is the Context Layer? The Missing Infrastructure for Production Agents — Prukalpa Sankar

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Why it matters

In the last two years, models have gotten exponentially smarter. Two years ago they couldn't pass the bar. Today, top 1% of test scorers. And yet most agents still can't answer a simple business question correctly. You ship a demo that works. You deploy it. The business abandons it in a month. The missing variable is c

My takeaway: WTF Is the Context Layer? The Missing Infrastructure for Production Agents — Prukalpa Sankar is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.