Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering: From Manual Craft to Automated Science
The core difference between context engineering and prompt engineering boils down to a single question: Are you manually crafting a one-off instruction, or are you architecting an automated system? Prompt engineering is the manual craft of writing specific instructions for a single AI task. Context engineering is the automated science of building systems that consistently feed an AI all the information it needs to handle complex jobs with production-grade accuracy.
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