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Context engineering with Dex Horthy

aired Jul 15, 2026 · 92.0m
Signal
75.0/ 100
High signal
confidence 0.99
Orig46.5
Actn100.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty53.4
Summary

What happens when you let AI agents ship code for months and no developer reads a single line?.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, it's, code, including: Today's guest tried exactly that.

Key takeaways
  1. 01What happens when you let AI agents ship code for months and no developer reads a single line?
  2. 02Dex Horthy is the founder of HumanLayer and the person who coined the term context engineering days before Andrey Karpathy and Tobi Luzka made it famous
  3. 03He spent the last two years talking to hundreds of AI engineers about what actually works when you build with LLMs and is testing the most extreme ideas with his own team
Best for
platform teams improving retrieval and memory