Stop babysitting your agents... — Brandon Waselnuk, Unblocked
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Same prompt. Same agent. Same model. Without a context engine: 2.5 hours, 20.9 million tokens, multiple rounds of human correction, and code that compiled but would have broken the entire system if it shipped. With one: 25 minutes, 10.8 million tokens, and a senior engineer who gave one nitpick and approved the merge. Brandon Waselnuk from Unblocked makes the case that the problem is not access but understanding. More MCPs give agents pipes to information. A million token context window just sit
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If your coding agents compile but produce subtly system-breaking changes, the fix may be pre-flight context engineering — reasoning across your codebase, Slack, PR history, and org decisions to assemble a research packet before the agent writes — rather than adding more MCP tool access or a bigger context window.
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