--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'Stop babysitting your agents... — Brandon Waselnuk, Unblocked' description: >- Same prompt. Same agent. Same model. Without a context engine: 2.5 hours, 20.9 million tokens, multiple rounds of human correction, and code that compiled but would have broken the entire system if it shipped. With one: 25 minutes, 10.8 million tokens, and a senior engineer who gave one nitpick and approved the merge. Brandon Waselnuk from Unblocked makes the case that the problem is not access but understanding. More MCPs give agents pipes to information. A million token context window just sits there. Naive RAG stops at the first result it finds, a phenomenon called satisfaction of search borrowed from radiology. What actually changes is a context engine that reasons across your codebase, Slack history, PR patterns, and org structure to build a research packet before the agent starts writing, so it arrives knowing your factory patterns, your fallback infrastructure, and what the CTO said was wrong in that thread three months ago. Speaker info: - https://getunblocked.com --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/BiG2ssibKGc-stop-babysitting-your-agents-building-a-context-engine-for-mergeable-code Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/stop-babysitting-your-agents-brandon-waselnuk-unblo-4649217a9111 markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/video/stop-babysitting-your-agents-brandon-waselnuk-unblo-4649217a9111.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T13:09:20.303Z' language: null children: [] videoId: BiG2ssibKGc durationSeconds: 1134 publishedAt: '2026-05-26T13:00:06.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 25 endSeconds: 124 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=25' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 25 endSeconds: 124 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=25' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 124 endSeconds: 135 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=124' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 135 endSeconds: 222 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=135' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 222 endSeconds: 233 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=222' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 233 endSeconds: 323 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=233' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 333 endSeconds: 464 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=333' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 333 endSeconds: 464 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=333' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 333 endSeconds: 464 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=333' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 474 endSeconds: 572 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=474' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 474 endSeconds: 572 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=474' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 572 endSeconds: 583 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=572' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 669 endSeconds: 681 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=669' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 681 endSeconds: 776 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=681' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 776 endSeconds: 787 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=776' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 787 endSeconds: 887 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=787' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 787 endSeconds: 887 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=787' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 898 endSeconds: 986 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=898' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 898 endSeconds: 986 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=898' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 19 text: null startSeconds: 997 endSeconds: 1134 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/BiG2ssibKGc?t=997' heldReason: rights --- # Stop babysitting your agents... — Brandon Waselnuk, Unblocked Same prompt. Same agent. Same model. Without a context engine: 2.5 hours, 20.9 million tokens, multiple rounds of human correction, and code that compiled but would have broken the entire system if it shipped. With one: 25 minutes, 10.8 million tokens, and a senior engineer who gave one nitpick and approved the merge. Brandon Waselnuk from Unblocked makes the case that the problem is not access but understanding. More MCPs give agents pipes to information. A million token context window just sits there. Naive RAG stops at the first result it finds, a phenomenon called satisfaction of search borrowed from radiology. What actually changes is a context engine that reasons across your codebase, Slack history, PR patterns, and org structure to build a research packet before the agent starts writing, so it arrives knowing your factory patterns, your fallback infrastructure, and what the CTO said was wrong in that thread three months ago. Speaker info: - https://getunblocked.com --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/BiG2ssibKGc-stop-babysitting-your-agents-building-a-context-engine-for-mergeable-code Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/stop-babysitting-your-agents-brandon-waselnuk-unblo-4649217a9111 · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.