--- title: Context Is the New Code — Patrick Debois, Tessl | daily.dev description: As AI coding agents become more capable, context is starting to matter as much as code. Yet while code has version control, review, testing, CI/CD, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/context-is-the-new-code-patrick-debois-tessl-sv4oznny9 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Context Is the New Code — Patrick Debois, Tessl | daily.dev og:description: As AI coding agents become more capable, context is starting to matter as much as code. Yet while code has version control, review, testing, CI/CD, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/context-is-the-new-code-patrick-debois-tessl-sv4oznny9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sv4oZnnY9.png og:image:alt: Context Is the New Code — Patrick Debois, Tessl og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Context Is the New Code — Patrick Debois, Tessl **[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 27 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary As AI coding agents become more capable, context is starting to matter as much as code. Yet while code has version control, review, testing, CI/CD, and production observability, the prompts, rules, and memory that drive agents are still often managed like ad hoc hacks. Patrick argues that context needs its own engineering discipline. He introduces the Context Development Lifecycle: Generate, Evaluate, Distribute, and Observe, along with the team practices that make context a shared, repeatable, and improvable part of software delivery. The session also explores the larger context flywheel, where better context leads to better agent output, which creates better observations, which in turn improves context again. Speaker info: - https://x.com/patrickdebois - https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickdebois/ ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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