The State of Context Engineering(dbreunig.com)
220 points by pchristensen | 57 comments
Slides and transcript of Drew Breunig's AGNTCon talk "Context Fails & Fixes," reviewing the history, failure modes, and future of context engineering for LLMs.
#context-engineering on Hacker News
9 stories tagged context-engineering, newest first.
Agents don't need memory, they need documentation(liao.gg)
348 points by kmeh | 211 comments
Blog post arguing that AI agents benefit more from good documentation than from persistent memory systems.
Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench(github.com)
367 points by dhorthy | 100 comments
A markdown report in HumanLayer's GitHub repo benchmarking Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 model on the SlopCodeBench coding benchmark.
The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models(claude.com)
429 points by mellosouls | 328 comments
Anthropic's Claude blog post on updated context engineering practices for Claude 5 generation models.
Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)(github.com)
351 points by dhorthy | 250 comments
A markdown essay in HumanLayer's GitHub repo arguing why AI-driven software factories fail and that harness engineering alone is not enough for coding agents.
Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system(github.com)
430 points by stefankuehnel | 237 comments
GitHub repository for Get Shit Done, an MIT-licensed meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code.
Getting AI to work in complex codebases(github.com)
442 points by dhorthy | 368 comments
A GitHub markdown document from HumanLayer describing advanced context engineering techniques for getting AI coding agents to work in complex codebases.
An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia(simonwillison.net)
450 points by tosh | 304 comments
Short blog post by Simon Willison proposing the analogy that an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia, and advising users to supply correct examples rather than rely on recall.
The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)
832 points by robotswantdata | 467 comments
Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.