Context engineering
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The term context engineering has recently started to gain traction as a better alternative to prompt engineering. I like it. I think this one may have sticking power.
I really like the term “context engineering” over prompt engineering. It describes the core skill better: the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.
+1 for "context engineering" over "prompt engineering". People associate prompts with short task descriptions you'd give an LLM in your day-to-day use. When in every industrial-strength LLM app, context…
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