Abstract
AI coding tools promise productivity gains, but many teams aren’t seeing the impact.
The real bottleneck isn’t code generation. It’s context. Understanding why a system was built a certain way, how it evolved, and what trade-offs were made often requires digging through GitHub, Slack, Notion, Confluence, Jira, and other tools.
This talk explores the idea of context engineering: structuring and exposing relevant knowledge so both humans and AI agents can work more effectively. I’ll show how Unblocked creates a contextual layer across your tools, giving AI models like Claude and Cursor access to product decisions, architectural history, and team discussions.
The result is less hallucination, faster iteration, and fewer interruptions. You get AI that understands your system instead of just guessing.
If you’re using AI in production codebases, this is the foundation that makes it work.
Speaker
Dennis Pilarinos
Founder and CEO @Unblocked
Dennis Pilarinos is the founder and CEO of Unblocked, a developer platform that gives teams helpful answers to questions about their codebase. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of Buddybuild, a mobile-focused continuous integration service that Apple acquired in 2018 and launched as Xcode Cloud. A seasoned technologist and business leader, Dennis has a track record of building, running, and scaling the teams and technologies behind leading developer platforms at Microsoft (Azure), Amazon (AWS), and Apple. He holds multiple patents and is passionate about tackling real-world problems for developers.
Session Sponsored By
Your developers know how to write code. What slows them down is the missing context to know what code to write. Unblocked gives engineering teams the answers they need to get their jobs done – without having to wait on or interrupt their teammates.
Date
Monday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST ( 50 minutes )
Location
Pacific LM
Video
Video is not available
