MODULE 1 — Introduction to Context Engineering
You thought… you had figured it out. You learned how to ask. How to structure. How to guide. You saw the model respond… better. Sharper. More aligned. And for a moment… it felt like control. But then… something strange happened. You asked a
You thought… you had figured it out. You learned how to ask. How to structure. How to guide. You saw the model respond… better. Sharper. More aligned. And for a moment… it felt like control. But then… something strange happened. You asked a follow-up question. And the model forgot. You gave it a complex task. And it missed context. You asked something domain-specific. And it hallucinated. Not because it was weak. But because… it did not know enough. Pause. Same model. Same intelligence. Same capability. Then why… does it fail? The answer is unsettling. Because all this time… you were only controlling the question. Not the world… in which the question exists. You were speaking to a genius… in an empty room. No memory. No tools. No background. No history. And expecting perfection. Now imagine something else. The same genius… but placed inside a different room. A room filled with: Relevant documents. Past conversations. Structured memory. Live data. Tools to act. Now ask the same question. The answer changes. Not because the model changed. But because the environment did. This is the shift. Prompt engineering… controls the answer. Context engineering… controls the environment. And when you control the environment… something deeper happens. You don’t just guide the model. You constrain reality… in which the model operates. You make it easier… for the model to be right. And harder… for it to be wrong. This is where… LLMs stop behaving like tools. And start behaving like systems. Like agents. Because now… they don’t just respond. They operate… within a designed world. And in that world… intelligence is not guessed. It is engineered. This is context engineering. And what you are about to learn next… will change the way you build with AI… forever.