Brandon WaselnukInfoQ · June 2026

# Building the Context Engine AI Agents Need

AI coding agents aren't failing because they lack intelligence — they're failing because they lack context. Dennis Pilarinos introduces the context engine: a reasoning layer that continuously synthesizes organizational knowledge, resolves conflicting sources, and delivers identity-scoped, token-optimized context so agents produce correct, org-aware code instead of triggering costly correction loops.

## Stop feeding context.  Start shipping code.