From prompt engineering to context engineering

For a long time, "prompt engineering" meant finding the right words. Better instructions, clearer examples, stricter output formats. That still matters, but it is no longer the whole story. The more useful shift is from prompt engineering to context engineering. Prompting is only one layer A good prompt can improve an answer. But many failures do not come from bad wording. They come from missing context. The model does not know: your codebase conventions the current ticket the relevant API docum