we're not just doing prompt engineering anymore. We're doing context engineering—and it's the future of artificial intelligence development.
these AI agents aren't just reading your prompts anymore. They're actively searching hundreds of websites, pulling from your Google Drive, connecting to databases, and synthesizing information from sources you never directly gave them. The AI prompt you write? That's becoming a tiny drop in an ocean of context these large language models discover on their own.
We're living through the emergence of what I'm calling deterministic versus probabilistic context in AI systems. The stuff you control—your AI prompts, uploaded documents, system instructions—that's deterministic context. But there's this whole other layer of probabilistic context: the vast web of information AI agents autonomously find and integrate. When Claude searches the web for investment advice, your original prompt becomes maybe 0.1% of what the large language model is actually processing.