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The context your agents don't have

An engineer warns that undocumented codebases pose a greater risk in the age of AI agents, which confidently fill context gaps with incorrect assumptions. The developer urges teams to document architectural decisions explicitly for agent context windows, not just for human readers.

read1 min views1 publishedJun 18, 2026

An undocumented codebase has always been a tax on new hires. In the agent era it's a different problem.

Agents don't go quiet when they hit a gap in context. They fill it. Confidently, and wrong. The architectural decision everyone knows because they were in the room? That doesn't exist to the fleet. They'll reverse it, or build on top of it in ways that silently invalidate it.

Write down why the system is the way it is. Not for the humans. For the context window.

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