InfoQ - Code Quality

Presentation: Context Is the New Code

Patrick Debois — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Patrick Debois discusses how to manage, evaluate, distribute, and observe context using proven software engineering practices. He shares how treating context like code - complete with testing, CI/CD, package managers, and security scanning - enables engineering leaders to reliably scale AI coding agents, maintain control over non-deterministic outputs, and build long-term organizational knowledge.

By Patrick Debois

Agents Refactor 300K Lines in Three Weeks, and Practitioners Ask What It Proves

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:16:00 GMT

CodeScene has published a case study in which coding agents refactored 300,000 lines of C over three weeks for roughly $4,000 in tokens, verified by a frame-by-frame replay harness. The agents built a playbook of codebase-specific recipes along the way. Practitioners have questioned the scope, the metric, and how much of the result depends on the harness.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers