This is the seventh article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one  here , part two  here , part three  here , part four  here , part five  here , and part six here . This is the latest article in my Radar series on AI-driven development and agentic engineering, and I have to admit that this one took a bit of a turn I wasn’t expecting. In my last article I talked about context and context management and I promised to give you some real practical tips for using it. It was originally meant to be about specific, practical context management techniques that were really helpful to me building Octobatch and the Quality Playbook , two open source projects where I work with AIs to plan and orchestrate all of the work and every line of code is written by AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor. But as I was writing this, I found that I’d adapted those same techniques to my work writing articles like this one. Which is surprising!…