Dumping the whole repo is not context engineering
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There is a moment in every AI-assisted project where the repo gets too big to paste. Most people solve it by pasting more. The context window is huge now, they reason, so I'll drop in the README, the router, the migrations, and the two most recent PRs. Then the assistant confidently writes code tha…
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- 2026-10-13 18:24 · DEV Community — AI
Dumping the whole repo is not context engineering