Essays by Ry Walker

Essays on AI, startups, and software engineering by Ry Walker, founder of Tembo and Astronomer.

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Apr 29, 2026Context Engineering Is the Hard Problem

Models keep getting better, but agents without deep codebase and organizational context are just expensive autocomplete. Context engineering is the bottleneck nobody has productized.