Harrison Chase on the rise of context engineering (X thread)
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The rise of context engineering "Context engineering" has been an increasingly popular term used to describe a lot of the system building that AI engineers do But what is it exactly? The definition I like: "Context engineering is building dynamic systems to provide the right information and tools in the right format such that the LLM can plausibly accomplish the task." Builds upon takes from
Not a new concept - agent builders have been doing it for the past year or two, and a lot of the tools we've build (LangGraph, LangSmith) have been built to assist with it. But it's a new term which will hopefully draw new attention to the skills and tools needed to do this properly.…
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