AI coding agents need cross-repo context. The teams running them at scale are already building it themselves."

Three weeks ago, the Cortex 2026 Engineering in the Age of AI Benchmark put incidents per pull request up 23.5% and change failure rates up roughly 30% since AI adoption accelerated. I wrote about that data and what it means for blast radius shortly after it landed. What I underestimated at the time was how fast the language was going to shift. The phrase that's settled into the conversation since isn't "blast radius" or "service catalog." It's cross-repo context.