What is Context Engineering and How Is It Different from Prompt Engineering?

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Context engineering is the skill of providing all the necessary context for large language models (LLMs) to perform specific tasks effectively. Unlike prompt engineering, which focuses on crafting the perfect single instruction, context engineering involves designing the entire information environment that an AI sees before generating a response. The distinction matters because modern AI systems […]