Harrison Chase: What is context engineering? (LinkedIn post)
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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." 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…
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