Context Engineering Needs a Build System, Not a Prompt Folder
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TL;DR — Prompt engineering treats prompts as prose; context engineering is actually a data pipeline problem — retrieval selection, ordering, and truncation policy silently reshape model behavior with zero versioning or tests. The real unit of engineering discipline isn't the prompt text, it's the c…
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- 2026-09-30 13:16 · DEV Community — AI
Context Engineering Needs a Build System, Not a Prompt Folder