Data/ML/AIEmergingAround since 2024
Context Engineering
The practice of deliberately deciding what information — documents, memory, tool outputs, instructions — to feed an AI model at each step, treated as a broader discipline than just writing a good prompt.
Think of it like
Like being a good executive assistant — it's not just what you say to the boss, it's making sure the right documents are already on their desk before the meeting starts.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Focuses only on prompt wording.
Senior sounds like
Can describe what else they had to get right — documents, memory, tool outputs — to make the model's output reliable.
Ask them
“Beyond the prompt itself, what else did you have to get right to make the model's output reliable?”