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Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
Agents can generate code. Getting it right for your system, team conventions, and past decisions is the hard part. You end up wasting time and tokens in the correction loops.
More MCPs, rules, and bigger context windows give agents access to information, but not understanding. The teams pulling ahead have a context layer to give agents exactly what they need for the task at hand.
Where teams get stuck on the AI maturity curve and why common fixes fall short
How a context layer solves for quality, efficiency, and cost
Live demo: the same coding task with and without a context layer
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This is something that has been on my mind for quite a while now. It seems like everything these days revolves around “AI”, “AI tools”, “AI productivity”.
“Your engineers should be 2x, 5x, or even 10x more productive with AI”
And I get it. AI is changing how we build software, and I use AI tools myself every day as well.
But we’re focusing too much on AI tools alone and not enough on the environment in which the tools are being used. Because there’s something a LOT more important than AI tools, and that’s a great culture.