Why Context Beats Every Prompt You'll Ever Write
About this episode
Most teams think agentic dev is about writing better prompts. It's not.
Guy Podjarny and Simon Maple explain why managing context, not crafting prompts, is what separates teams that scale with agents from teams that don't. They walk through a practical framework for building, evaluating, and distributing the context your agents actually need.
In this episode:
• Why agents fail without structured context about your internal platform
• The 3 context layers: policies, platform docs, and application context
• How to build regression evals and torture tests for your agents
• The Context Development Lifecycle (CDLC) - a new loop for agentic dev
Your agents are only as good as the context you give them.
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