Augment Code Measured Our Thesis for Us, Then Stopped One Step Short
When Augment exposed its context engine over MCP in February 2026, Claude Code on Opus 4.5 gained around 80% on quality and Cursor gained around 71%, with code completeness up 60% and correctness improved fivefold. Somebody else measured that, on somebody else's product, and it is the strongest evidence anyone has produced that context architecture matters more than model selection. Here is where our architecture diverges from theirs.