Context Is The Whole Game
Part of the Vibe Coding: Advanced Engineering course
Almost every complaint about AI coding tools ("it hallucinated an API", "it rewrote code that was already correct", "it works on toys and falls apart on my repo") is a context problem wearing a different hat. The model, the language model behind your tool, is not reasoning about your system. It is reasoning about the text you gave it. This lesson makes that text something you engineer on purpose.
You hold a model of your codebase in your head: which service owns which table, which abstraction is load-bearing, which module everyone is afraid to touch. The model holds none of that. ...
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Start this lessonContext Is The Whole GameWhat you'll learn
- Context window as a budget you spend
- What the model actually sees versus what you think it sees
- Curating a repo map instead of dumping files
- Context rot and why longer is not better
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All lessons in this course
12 lessons- 1Context Is The Whole Game35 min
- 2Pick The Right Brain, Pay The Right Price25 min
- 3Spec-Driven Development35 min
- 4Build Your Harness35 min
- 5Verification Loops: Make It Prove Itself40 min
- 6Reading Generated Code Like A Senior40 min
- 7Legacy Archaeology40 min
- 8Migrations At Scale40 min
- 9Debugging Code You Did Not Write40 min
- 10The Security Model Of An Agent40 min
- 11AI On A Team30 min
- 12Judgment: Knowing When Not To35 min
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