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title: "And so, uh, and we tried to give it context and not just constraints."
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# And so, uh, and we tried to give it context and not just constraints.

> And so, uh, and we tried to give it context and not just constraints.

## Why This Quote Matters
This quote was chosen because it draws a useful boundary between shallow and production-ready practice and surfaces context management as an engineering concern. In the context of [[youtube-9fubhllmsBU|Field Guide to Fable — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic]], it is a useful pointer into [[coding-agents|Coding Agents]] rather than just a memorable line: it captures a reusable engineering judgment readers can compare against the source transcript, slides, and related scheduled sessions.

## Related Topics
- [[coding-agents|Coding Agents]] — primary transcript signal
- [[agent-memory|Agent Memory]] — secondary transcript signal
- [[mcp|MCP]] — secondary transcript signal
- [[agentic-search|Agentic Search]] — secondary transcript signal

## Source
- [[youtube-9fubhllmsBU]] — Field Guide to Fable — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic