February 21, 2026 · Engineering Leadership
Your AI Coding Tools Are Lying to You (And Your Engineers Don't Know It Yet)
Pull request sizes are up 33%. Change failure rates are climbing nearly 30%. The culprit isn't laziness — it's confidence without context. Why context engineering is the CTO-level discipline that separates rigor from recklessness.
Full article content is being served from the legacy SPA version today. This Next.js route now exposes the article as a fully crawlable page with correct metadata, and the long-form content can be moved here verbatim from the SPA when you are ready to fully decommission the Vite app.