Most engineering leaders believe compounding context separates production-grade AI from the rest. Almost none have built it.
- Why the risk calculus has flipped: 69% now see an agent that can't navigate across systems as riskier than one that hallucinates.
- The context governance contradiction: 60% say they're bad at governing context access, while 58% are confident it's governed well.
- Why stale data still wins: 69% of the most mature organizations still act on stale data for critical decisions
