Oct 13, 2026

Summary

Learn how to build the context layer AI agents need to produce organization-aware, permission-safe, genuinely useful code.

Every agent can generate code. Very few can generate the right code for your organization, because they’re missing context. They don’t know why your team chose Redis over DynamoDB, what the team decided in a Slack thread from two months ago about the auth migration, or which architectural patterns your principal engineers actually enforce in review. 

This talk is a practitioner’s guide to building a context engine: the reasoning layer that continuously synthesizes organizational knowledge across disparate sources into unified, queryable understanding. I’ll walk through the problems you actually have to solve: reasoning across systems that don’t agree with each other, searching globally before you can reason, maintaining identity-scoped permissions so every user and agent only sees what they should, and personalizing results based on who’s asking and what they’re working on. These are the engineering challenges that make naive RAG fall short, drawn from real lessons building this at scale.

Speakers

Brandon Waselnuk

Brandon Waselnuk

Developer Relations @ Unblocked

Brandon Waselnuk is a Developer Advocate at Unblocked, the context layer for agentic software development. He previously led product at Mintlify and co-founded Squire AI, an AI code review platform. A Y Combinator alum (S21) and Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund, Brandon also led product initiatives at IBM, helping create Design Thinking @ IBM and managing portfolio planning for IBM's $1B+ Business Analytics division. He's passionate about building tools that make engineering teams more productive.

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