951: Context Engineering, Multiplayer AI and Effective Search, with Dropbox’s Josh Clemm

VP of Engineering at Dropbox Josh Clemm speaks to Jon Krohn about consolidating search tools across apps with the AI-powered workspace, Dropbox Dash, the new collaborative AI systems that enhance interoperability between team members and their projects, and how to avoid “context rot”. Dropbox Dash gives users the best of Dropbox’s cloud storage and search functions, plus a “universal search” ability to locate information across multimedia and apps. “AI really needs to understand you and your team, first and foremost, and all that connected data,” says Josh.

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In this episode you will learn:

• (01:07) All about Dropbox Dash
• (10:00) The benefits of browser-embedded AI
• (22:17) Why context engineering is so critical to agentic systems 
• (37:51) How creating apps helps tech leadership 
• (48:39) When to decide to use data versus intuition