Tagged context-engineering
3 essays
- Context pruning is a bet on the future When an agent's window fills, the obvious move is to drop the oldest, biggest tool results. That's a cache-eviction bet you can't make optimally without seeing the future, and the right one depends entirely on your workload.
- Context engineering is the design surface Prompt engineering treats the words as the lever. Context engineering treats the whole context window as the design surface, with a stage and an artifact for each step. It's the better abstraction for production work.
- Stop micromanaging your AI Most people prompting models have quietly become managers - and they're managing badly. The fix is to build systems for context, not to craft better one-off prompts.