Why Context Beats Every Prompt You'll Ever Write

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of managing context over crafting prompts in agentic development.

Most teams think agentic dev is about writing better prompts. It's not. Guy Podjarny and Simon Maple explain why managing context, not crafting prompts, is what separates teams that scale with agents from teams that don't. They walk through a practical framework for building, evaluating, and distributing the context your agents actually need. In this episode: • Why agents fail without structured context about your internal platform • The 3 context layers: policies, platform docs, and applic...

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Guests: Guy Podjarny, Simon Maple

Topics covered

• context management
• agentic development
• software development
• team scaling
• frameworks

Keywords

• context
• prompts
• agents
• software development
• framework

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