The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering
• Instructions / System Prompt: An initial set of instructions that define the behavior of the model during a conversation, can/should include examples, rules ….
• User Prompt: Immediate task or question from the user.
• State / History (short-term Memory): The current conversation, including user and model responses that have led to this moment.
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Philipp Schmid • The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering
Context engineering components and definitions
Building Agents is less about the code you write or framework you use. The difference between a cheap demo and a “magical” agent is about the quality of the context you provide. Imagine an AI assistant is asked to schedule a meeting based on a simple email:
Hey, just checking if you’re around for a quick sync tomorrow.
The "Cheap Demo" Age
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Context Engineering is new term gaining traction in the AI world. The conversation is shifting from "prompt engineering" to a broader, more powerful concept: Context Engineering . Tobi Lutke describes it as "the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.” and he is right.