The pattern shows up in incident reports, forum posts, and whispered Slack conversations with disturbing regularity: an AI coding assistant, given a routine task, interprets it just slightly wrong—and destroys something important. A Cursor user watches their agent wipe a Git repository. An Amazon Q developer extension ships a prompt-stealing worm. A Claude Code session,...
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Context Engineering: The Real Challenge Behind Building AI Agents
Remember when we thought building AI applications was just about writing clever prompts? Those days feel quaint now. As enterprise AI deployments scale and agents tackle increasingly complex tasks, a new discipline has emerged from the trenches: context engineering. It's not just about what you tell an AI anymore—it's about orchestrating an entire symphony of...
