Presentation: Context is the New Code

Patrick Debois: Context is code. Who believes that is true? There's two ways that I've seen this manifest. One is the like very vibe coding, Andrej Karpathy who says, we're just giving it prompts. We're giving it context. It's writing the code for us. Definitely context is code there. The second piece is something we experienced in our own company. We were writing a piece about onboarding people to our tool. You cannot imagine the discussions we had and then the number of pieces of code we had to write for all the edge cases of doing the onboarding. Then in the end, we said, let's write a skill in natural language, give it to the agent, it will cater to whatever the person in front of it needs to have, all the scenarios. So much code compressed to a couple of words. That's also code. It's not just building it, it's like a piece of the product as well. I personally love to think in parallels, and in 2009, I was thinking like, what if ops would be more like dev? We had DevOps. This talk is about what if context is like code. That's the mindset. The Software…