DIFF.BLOG
New Following Discover Jobs
More
Top Writers Suggest a blog Upvotes plugin
Report bug Contact About
Sign up
Topics
Follow your own topics →
Menu
New Following Discover Jobs Top Writers
More
Suggest a blog Upvotes plugin Report bug Contact About
Sign up
The home for great developer writing.
We surface the best developer writing from thousands of independent blogs, updated daily.
Join Diff.blog
TOPICS

Context Engineering in 2026: What Replaced Prompt Engineering

199 · Aleksei Aleinikov · Aug. 7, 2026, 9:40 a.m.
context engineering Prompt Engineering AI agents Context Window software development Prompt Engineering AI optimization context engineering
Summary
This blog post discusses the concept of context engineering as a successor to prompt engineering in AI, arguing that context should be treated as a finite budget. The author outlines the limitations of larger context windows and introduces three techniques to optimize context usage.
Read full post on www.alekseialeinikov.com →
MORE POSTS LIKE THIS
Prompt, harness, context, loop, graph: the jargon is a changelog
Krushi Raj Tula · Aug 15, 2026
software development Prompt Engineering
What Codex Actually Sends to the Model
0xkato · Aug 4, 2026
Blog codex
LLMs reward expertise
seangoedecke.com RSS feed · Jul 24, 2026
software development large language models
How to Use Prompt Engineering and Context Engineering for AI Agents
freeCodeCamp.org · Jul 25, 2026
AI AI agents
Context engineering with Dex Horthy
The Pragmatic Engineer · Jul 15, 2026
code-quality software development
How we use PostHog to keep our AI assistant on track
Depot · Jul 15, 2026
software development productivity-tools
Discover more posts →
AUTHOR
RECENT POSTS FROM THE AUTHOR
Choose how you want to continue.
Continue with GitHub Continue with Google