Re:Karpathy: "context engineering" over "prompt engineering"
by nico on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @02:34PM
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This is key
Besides model capabilities, one of the most important aspects of AI-assisted development right now, is context management
Cursor et al try to automate that for the user, and it works up to a point. But at a certain level of complexity, the user needs to get actively involved in managing the context
It also seems like some people who say they are having very good results with agentic coding, take a lot of care in managing their cursor rules or claude.md files
Besides model capabilities, one of the most important aspects of AI-assisted development right now, is context management
Cursor et al try to automate that for the user, and it works up to a point. But at a certain level of complexity, the user needs to get actively involved in managing the context
It also seems like some people who say they are having very good results with agentic coding, take a lot of care in managing their cursor rules or claude.md files