[lukev]

I agree with your conclusion not to sweat all these features too much, but only because they're not hard at all to understand on demand once you realize that they all boil down to a small handful of ways to manipulate model context.

But context engineering very much not going anywhere as a discipline. Bigger and better models will by no means make it obsolete. In fact, raw model capability is pretty clearly leveling off into the top of an S-curve, and most real-world performance gains over the last year have been precisely because of innovations on how to better leverage context.

[hiq]

My point is that there'll be some layer doing that for you. We already have LLMs writing plans for another LLM to execute, and many other such orchestrations, to reduce the constraints on the actual human input. Those implementing this layer need to develop this context engineering; those simply using LLM-based products do not, as it'll be done for them somewhat transparently, eventually. Similar to how not every software engineer needs to be a compiler expert to run a program.