Your agents lack context: Here's how to fix "You're absolutely right!"
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 12:05pm-12:25pm
- Track/room: Context Engineering · Track 8
- Speaker(s): Brandon Waselnuk
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
Official Description
Every AI coding tool can generate code. Very few can generate the right code for your organization,
because they're missing context. They don't know why your team chose Redis over DynamoDB, what the
team decided in a Slack thread earlier today about the auth migration, or which architectural
patterns your principal engineers actually enforce in review. This talk is a practitioner's guide
to building a context engine: the reasoning layer that continuously ingests & synthesizes
organizational knowledge across disparate sources into unified, queryable understanding. I'll walk
through the problems you actually have to solve — reasoning across systems that don't agree with
each other, searching globally before you can reason, maintaining identity-scoped permissions so
every user and agent only sees what they should, and personalizing results based on who's asking and
what they're working on. These are the engineering challenges that make naive RAG fall short, drawn
from real lessons building this at scale.
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Stop babysitting your agents... — Brandon Waselnuk, Unblocked (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
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