Context Engineering: The Missing Layer in Agentic AI — Google Cloud Next 2026
There’s a term that came out of Google Cloud Next 2026 that’s going to become central to how we talk about production agentic AI: context engineering. It sounds like buzzword padding at first. But the concept describes a real gap that every enterprise builder hits when they try to move agents from demo to production: the agents work beautifully in a sandbox with hand-crafted context, and fall apart in the real environment where data is messy, incomplete, poorly tagged, and scattered across a dozen systems. ...