Free Lesson
Advanced Context Engineering
Part of Featured Lightning Lessons
45 min
Sep 6, 2025 3:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)
In this video
What you'll learn
How to use AI with larger codebases
Challenges in AI-generated coding, especially for complex problems and brownfield codebases
How to optimize AI Coding Agents
Techniques to make AI coding agents work well for hard problems in large codebases
Practical examples from the real world
Examples of using AI to make changes to 300k-line Rust codebases. Takeaways and next steps.
Why this topic matters
Our guest speaker, Dex, will dive into the evolution of context engineering for building reliable LLM apps, rooted in the “12 Factor Agents” manifesto.
Learn from his experience generating 2,000-line PRs, fixing issues in a 300k-line Rust codebase with techniques like:
Intentional compaction,
Sub-agents
research-plan worklfow
To ship product-quality code
You'll learn from
Dexter Horthy
CEO and Founder at HumanLayer
Meri Nova
Founder @Break Into Data.
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