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Context engineering

74 pointsby chrisloyyesterday at 8:52 AM49 commentsview on HN

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eltetoyesterday at 12:49 PM

Are there any open source examples of good context engineering or agent systems?

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voidhorseyesterday at 12:59 PM

There is nothing precise about crafting prompts and context—it's just that, a craft. Even if you do the right thing and check some fuzzy boundary conditions using autoscorers, the model can still change out from beneath you at any point and totally alter the behavior of your system. There is no formal language here. After all, mathematics exists because natural language is notoriously imprecise.

The article has some good practical tips and it's not on the author but man I really wish we'd stop abusing the term "engineering" in a desperate attempt to stroke our own egos and or convince people to give us money. It's pathetic. Coming up with good inputs to LLMs is more art than science and it's a craft. Call a spade a spade.

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aleccoyesterday at 4:55 PM

This looks AI generated slop.

grigioyesterday at 1:27 PM

I'd like a RSS feed of this blog..

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aeve890yesterday at 1:44 PM

Are we still calling this things engineering?

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sgt101yesterday at 2:10 PM

Why would I believe that any of this works? This is just some blokes idea of what people should do.

There is no evidence offered. No attempt to measure the benefits.

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