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The Context Tax of Agentic Development

calendar_today August 25, 2026 person A Talhan domain expedia-group

Expedia Group Technology — Engineering Missing context used to slow a team down, with agents in the loop it speeds up the wrong work instead Photo by Harley-Davidson on Unsplash When we started using agents more seriously inside the team, the first bottleneck was not code generation — It was context coordination. That sounds like a documentation problem, but it did not feel like one. It felt like a delivery problem.

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