Building Agents Is Trivial Now, Context Is the Next Frontier — Jeff Ng, Unblocked
Source
AI Engineer
Author
AI Engineer
Date
Terms in this piece · Glossary
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
Why it matters
The context windowThe maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.Full definition → an AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → cannot see is the context that makes it confidently wrong, and that gap does not show up as an error.
videoThe Missing Layer: Design Taste in AI Agents — Hassan El Mghari, Together AI
videoAgentic SDLC at Uber — Uday Kiran Medisetty & Adam Huda, Uber
videoThe Last Human Code Review: Building Trust in AI-Generated Code — Itamar Friedman, Qodo
videoPrototyping as Leadership: How a CTO Ships with AI Agents — Hursh Agrawal, The Browser Company
