
What Is Context Engineering? The Skill That Replaced Prompt Engineering
In 2026 the skill everyone talks about isn't prompt engineering anymore — it's context engineering, and Gartner literally says "context engineering is in, prompt engineering is out." We explain it without the hype: what it is, where the term came from (Tobi Lütke, Karpathy, Anthropic), how it differs from prompt engineering and whether prompt engineering is really "dead", the pieces that make up "context" (instructions, retrieved data, tools, memory), and why it's what stops an AI from hallucinating. Then what it means for a business chatbot: a chatbot is only as good as the context it's given. With the real primary sources.
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