The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering

Shared from philschmid.de on March 25, 2026.

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Philipp Schmid,

This is a useful framing link because it shifts the work from clever prompts to the operational discipline of selecting, shaping, and evaluating context. That maps directly to agent systems, RAG, long-context workflows, and product features that must explain why the model saw what it saw.

The caution is that "context engineering" can become a new vague label. It is only valuable when it produces inspectable inputs, measurable outcomes, and clearer failure modes.

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