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Jun 1, 2026
J. Tower: A.I. Workflows - Episode 404
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Jonathan TowerGUEST
So [chuckles] by the time this video goes out, there may be different answers to this, which is fine.

Jonathan TowerGUEST
But right now, what is kind of at the cutting edge is several months ago now, Markdown files, thanks to Anthropic, started becoming kind of a major way to capture context.

Jonathan TowerGUEST
So there was a very brief time period there where a bunch of companies started standing up MCP servers that would let you get access to their documentation or their language specifications or whatever, and, uh, people would start including those.

Jonathan TowerGUEST
And what, what people quickly found was that those MCP servers use up a lot of your context.

Jonathan TowerGUEST
Like, they would get contacted a lot, and, um, a lot of information would go into your context, and you would very quicklyUh, well, to have everything you needed in context.
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Jeffrey PalermoHOST
And so with, with continuous integration and the software development life cycle and all the stages that we've learned over the years to typically go through, how do you s- how does AI change that, or does AI cause us to merge some of those stages?