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2. Talking to a model well

Context engineering

The bigger discipline around prompting: deciding what information goes into the model's context window, in what order, and what gets left out. The prompt is the question; context engineering is curating everything around it.

Why it matters: models answer from what they're shown. Feeding the right ten paragraphs beats feeding a hundred pages — more isn't better, relevant is better.

Related: Context window