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HAMY LABS POD · October 7 · 21 min

Durable Context, Disposable Code - Building Systems with Speed and Quality in the Agentic Era

In this video we discuss the changing meta of building systems at scale - context that's durable and code that's disposable. Original blog post with all images and links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-10_durable-context-disposable-code Get my full AI Dotfiles - https://github.com/HAMY-LABS/hamy-labs-code-examples/tree/main/artificial-intelligence - Available to Haminions members - https://hamy.xyz/haminions Chapters 00:00 - Intro 00:50 - The Bottleneck 03:55 - Code is not the source of truth 07:20 - Durable Context 12:50 - Change Context 15:15 - System Guardrails Links: - How I Actually Do Agentic Engineering As A Senior Software Engineer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSAbVuwt8Z4 - How Much Faster is Coding with AI Agents? - youtube.com/watch?v=w7l2xUMzFmI - How to Balance Speed, Quality, and Mental Overhead in Agentic Engineering - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLf5LgSqLM8 About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems. Connect with me: - Website: https://hamy.xyz - Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/ - Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY - BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social - Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/ # Support the Channel If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a HAMINIONs supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions Supporters get: * Full source code access from courses / tutorials * Exclusive discounts on products / courses Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing! Additional ways to support: * YouTube channel members get early access to videos (sometimes weeks before they go public!) * Sponsor posts on the blog / channel: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors * Buy merch from my shop - https://shop.hamy.xyz/

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In this video we discuss the changing meta of building systems at scale - context that's durable and code that's disposable.

Original blog post with all images and links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-10_durable-context-disposable-code

Get my full AI Dotfiles - https://github.com/HAMY-LABS/hamy-labs-code-examples/tree/main/artificial-intelligence
- Available to Haminions members - https://hamy.xyz/haminions

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:50 - The Bottleneck
03:55 - Code is not the source of truth
07:20 - Durable Context
12:50 - Change Context
15:15 - System Guardrails

Links:

- How I Actually Do Agentic Engineering As A Senior Software Engineer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSAbVuwt8Z4
- How Much Faster is Coding with AI Agents? - youtube.com/watch?v=w7l2xUMzFmI
- How to Balance Speed, Quality, and Mental Overhead in Agentic Engineering - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLf5LgSqLM8

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/

# Support the Channel

If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a HAMINIONs supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions

Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses

Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!

Additional ways to support: 
* YouTube channel members get early access to videos (sometimes weeks before they go public!)
* Sponsor posts on the blog / channel: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors
* Buy merch from my shop - https://shop.hamy.xyz/