Nupur Sharma

Code Agents Need Context Engineering, Not Larger Prompts

Nupur Sharma of Qodo argues that larger context windows have not solved a core agent failure: models still tend to use the beginning and end of an input while losing important material in the middle. Her case is that agent quality depends less on giving a model more context than on engineering how context is retrieved, ranked, constrained and checked. She describes Qodo’s approach as a mix of iterative retrieval, specialist agents, judge nodes and bounded orchestration that reserves high-reasoning models for discovery while using stricter, lighter steps for validation.