
2026-06-26
More Context Is Making Your AI Dumber
Prompt engineering taught us how to ask. Context engineering is the next layer: deciding what the model sees, when it sees it, and what it never needs to see at all.
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Prompt engineering taught us how to ask. Context engineering is the next layer: deciding what the model sees, when it sees it, and what it never needs to see at all.

Months on the rater side of LLM training taught me one thing: the model's default answer isn't its best answer — it's the answer most likely to get a thumbs-up from a tired human reviewer. Four laws to drag it out of the median.

Paying $20/month and getting $2 of value. The gap between top 1% and everyone else isn't the model — it's how they drive it. Here's the playbook power users actually run.