🕶️ Agentic AI - Intelligence and context

Coding Agents have improved vastly in the intelligence, recently OpenAI ChatGPT-5 got perfect scores on ICPC 2025 This means agents are pretty good with horsepower, so what is missing for autonomous programming agents ?

Context (information about the problem at hand) is the second key component for agents to be effective. Programming competitions are mainly about horsepower, real world problems are more about context

A human programmer has different sources of context

Access to code, related documentation and instructions to build and run is basic, but they also have understanding of architecture, code organization, conventions, patterns, tribal knowledge floating around in IRC, slack, E-mail, or other IMs, cafeteria (this one could be hard for Agentic AI, but they can be made to listen and learn)

There is a lot to be done to build the context as it is a subjective issue which makes it a bit harder.