Context engineering

July 2, 2025

Screenshot of a blog post from Simon Willison’s Weblog discussing the term "context engineering" as a potentially better alternative to "prompt engineering." The post includes a link to a tweet by Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke

The term context engineering has recently started to gain traction as a better alternative to prompt engineering. I like it. I think this one may have sticking power.

Source: Context engineering

More on ‘context engineering’ this time from Simon Willison (which generally means you should start taking notice).