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Doug Whitley and Ash Zade of Stack Overflow explain how AI context engineering helps constrain the information available to agents, improve the predictability of outputs, and handle memory, permissions, and conflicting information. The speakers believe that building this system internally is possible, but it requires addressing technical and philosophical issues related to trust, data quality, and determining what an agent should do when information is missing or conflicting.