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What context engineering actually means
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- Written by: M. Okafor
- Category: Field Notes
People reach for a bigger model when the real problem is that they are handing it the wrong information. Context engineering is the work of deciding what goes into the model's window, in what order, and in what shape, so the answer you want is the easy answer for it to give.
Retrieval is only half the job
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- Written by: M. Okafor
- Category: Field Notes
Vector search gets you a pile of plausibly relevant chunks. That pile is not context yet. The half nobody budgets for is what you do with those chunks before they reach the model.
Keeping a long conversation coherent
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- Written by: R. Vellani
- Category: Field Notes
Long chats drift. By turn thirty the model is answering a slightly different question than the one the user is actually asking, because the early context that framed everything has scrolled out of reach.
Choosing what to summarize and what to drop
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- Written by: R. Vellani
- Category: Guides
Compression is where most of the damage happens. Summarize the wrong thing and you have not saved space, you have deleted the answer.
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