Your Coding Agent Is 6 Months Out of Date — Jakub Hojsan, Exa

Why watch

Jakub Hojsan explains how AI coding agents suffer from a 6-month knowledge cutoff gap that causes incorrect code reviews. He demonstrates a real PR that falls in this blind spot, explains why simply adding a web search tool isn't sufficient, and shows how to implement explicit rules for when agents should search. The talk covers Exa's query-dependent highlights that reduce 100,000-character pages to ~500 characters with no latency, and discusses the tradeoffs between built-in web search versus independent search providers.