Context engineering: the invisible skill that separates good AI agents from mediocre ones
Imagine you hire a brilliant consultant. They have two PhDs, speak seven languages, and solve problems you didn’t even know you had. You sit them in a room and say: “I need you to refactor the authentication in the project.” The consultant looks at you, nods, and asks: “What project?” You haven’t given them access to the code. You haven’t explained the architecture. They don’t know if you use JWT tokens or session cookies. They don’t know what language you’re using, how many microservices you have, or why the last migration attempt ended in disaster. ...