Armstrong: Engineers should update AI context repos rather than edit imperfect PRs
Brian Armstrong · Brian Armstrong: Rebuilding Coinbase Around Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Jun 26, 2026 · at 37:30
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, describes how engineering teams should build shared context repositories for AI agents rather than manually fixing flawed AI output.
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“And you have to, it's like a shift in mindset where, you know, let's say that it creates a draft pull request for some new feature, and it's not quite perfect. Your instinct typically would be to go in there and actually edit the pull request to make it better. But what you want to do is actually update the context, the brain that generated and say now, okay, when you make it, when you make one of these, Do it in this slightly different way. Don't forget about this. This is important and have it rerun it itself and generate a brand new one. And only when it one shots it perfectly, then do you ship it? Because now you've encoded like the thing that it missed in the brain for all future teammates and all future pull requests.”
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