I enjoyed the emphasis on optimising the context window itself. I think that's the most important bit.

An abstraction for this that seems promising to me for its completeness and size is a User Story paired with a research plan(?).

This works well for many kinds of applications and emphasizes shipping concrete business value for every unit of work.

I wrote about some of it here: https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09/15/ai-unit-of-work/

I also think a lot of coding benchmarks and perhaps even RL environments are not accounting for the messy back and forth of real world software development, which is why there's always a gap between the promise and reality.