Context is the new code: The context development lifecycle
summary
Claim: context becomes the primary artifact to engineer, treated with the same rigor as code. The lifecycle is Generate, Evaluate, Distribute, Observe and uses concrete items like an agent.md file, skill packages pushed to private skills registries, LLM-based evals that both lint and run curl checks, and agent logs for telemetry. Teams build harnesses and loop engineering (several parallel harnesses run in practice), a Tessel agent prototype reads the event site and correctly identifies the logged‑in talk, proving the approach works.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Context as the new code
- 1:14DevOps to context-driven dev
- 2:42Reusable context generation
- 4:31Testing context with evals
- 6:41Advanced context evaluation
- 8:28Distributing context via registries
- 10:35Governing context packages
- 12:20Observing context performance
- 14:45Optimizing context with harnesses
- 16:51Loop engineering systems
- 18:17Autonomous context automation
- 20:00Organizational harness building
- 21:50Maturity: code to loop engineering
- 22:30Context workflow guardrails
- 24:14Review interfaces for context
- 25:15Context flywheel and platform layers
- 26:20New developer roles
- 26:41Closing and collaboration
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