The rise of \"context engineering\"
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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.
Most of the time when an agent is not performing reliably the underlying cause is that the appropriate context, instructions and tools have not been communicated to the model.
LLM applications are evolving from single prompts to more complex, dynamic agentic systems. As such, context engineering is becoming the most important skill an AI engineer can develop.
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.
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