Tagged context-engineering
3 essays
- Context pruning is a bet on the future When an agent runs out of context, something has to go, and whatever you drop you're guessing about what it'll need later. Operating systems have been guessing at this for fifty years and there are lessons in how they do it.
- Context engineering is the design surface Prompt engineering is about picking the right words. The bigger question in production is what goes into the context window at all, and what each step is allowed to see. That's the part that decides whether the thing works.
- Stop micromanaging your AI Re-explaining your situation at the start of every chat is the same as briefing a new contractor every morning. The fix is boring: write the context down once, somewhere the model can always see it.