What's inside
Prompt engineering is about the words you send. Context engineering is about everything the model sees before it answers — and it's what makes AI reliable inside real software, not just a one-off chat. A no-jargon guide built around examples you can run today.
- A simple mental model: the context window as the model's RAM
- The four moves every AI engineer uses — Write, Select, Compress, Isolate
- The four ways context goes wrong — and the fix for each
- Five worked examples with copy-paste templates, plus a one-page cheat sheet
Grab the PDF for the worked examples, exercises, and cheat sheet.