Feb 28, 2026 — 15 min — Platform & AI
Context Engineering Keeps Long Context Useful
A practical synthesis of Drew Breunig, Simon Willison, and Anthropic on how long contexts fail, how to fix them, and why multi-agent systems need context discipline.
Tag: context engineering
3 entries tagged "context engineering" — 1 post, 2 links.
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The RAG Obituary: Killed by Agents, Buried by Context Windows
The thesis is deliberately provocative, which makes it useful. RAG is not simply dead, but the old chunk-embed-rerank default is under pressure from larger contexts, agentic retrieval loops, and document-native workflows.
I would keep this as a debate starter, not a doctrine. The production question is still which retrieval shape gives the model the right evidence at the right cost with inspectable failure modes.
The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering
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.