Context Clues
How to keep AI agents building what matters, not just what compiles.
- No. 23Context engineering, explainedThe discipline of deciding what a model sees, and the harder problem of keeping it true.5 min
- No. 22Why spec-driven development isn’t enoughA spec is only as good as the decisions underneath it, and those keep changing.5 min
- No. 21Why your engineers got coding agents and shipping didn’t speed upThe bottleneck moved from code generation to review, coordination, and scoping.7 min
- No. 2046% to 95%: What a Controlled Benchmark Reveals About AI Coding Agents and Product ContextA controlled benchmark across 8 tasks, 41 decision points, and 48 runs13 min
- No. 19Why ACP Changes the Way We Build with AgentsFrom tool-calling to agent coordination6 min
- No. 18AI ‘Brain Fry’ Is Real, and the Fix Isn’t Less AI. It’s Better Conversations With ItNew research shows the real cost of AI oversight, and how to fix it6 min
- No. 17Multi-Agent AI Pipelines: Solving Context Loss Between AI AgentsMulti-agent workflows amplify the telephone game.6 min
- No. 16You Already Have a Product Graph. You Just Can’t Query It.The knowledge is there. The search isn’t.4 min
- No. 15Stop Debugging Code. Start Debugging Decisions.The most expensive bugs aren’t syntax errors. They’re ambiguous requirements.10 min
- No. 14I Almost Built the Wrong ThingI almost built Brief as a meeting bot that simulated product reviews.9 min
- No. 13Why Do Tools for Product Managers Suck?PM tools fail because they track the how and ignore the why.10 min
- No. 12The AI Only Gets You to 80% Complaint is BackwardsThe complaint that AI only gets you to 80% misses the point.9 min
- No. 11The Future is the Product DeveloperThe boundary between product, engineering, and design is dissolving.7 min
- No. 10Quarterly Planning is DeadQuarterly planning worked when shipping a meaningful change took months.9 min
- No. 9You Just Became a Manager of AI Agents (and the Communication Chain is Broken)Rebuilding context transmission across two layers of abstraction.10 min
- No. 8Remote Killed the Shoulder Tap. AI is Breaking It Again.How structured context became the new shoulder tap10 min
- No. 7Context Windows Will Keep Growing (But That Won’t Solve the Problem)Context windows will keep growing, but increasing the volume of context won’t resolve the core issues of vibe coding.5 min
- No. 6Are You Treating Your Coding Agent Like a Mushroom?If you’re starving your AI of product context, you’re guaranteed generic outcomes.5 min
- No. 5Product Management Has a Velocity ProblemWhen code is cheap, product judgment becomes the constraint5 min
- No. 4What PMs Actually Need (vs. What We Keep Building for Them)Product managers are drowning in metrics and workflows, but what they really need is clarity, better tools for expressing ideas, and alignment with engineering and company decision-making.6 min
- No. 3The Hidden Cost of Context-less AI DevelopmentWhy missing business context wastes time and ships elegant solutions to the wrong problems.7 min
- No. 2Building AI that understands product impact, not just code qualityA technical deep dive into context-aware AI systems that bridge the gap between shipping fast and shipping right8 min
- No. 1That code you rejected 3 times? Your AI just suggested it again.Why AI coding assistants keep suggesting the same wrong solutions, and how context memory solves the endless repeat cycle.5 min