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Podcast: Context Engineering with Adi Polak

Prompt engineering is dead. Here's what's replacing it: context engineering for stateful AI systems.

Reporting by InfoQ AI/ML 1 min brief
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Why it matters

As LLMs power agentic systems, the technical approach to AI interaction is shifting from stateless prompt engineering to stateful context engineering—a fundamental change in how companies should architect AI workflows.

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6 to know

  1. Context engineering enables stateful AI systems vs. stateless prompt engineering

  2. Critical for designing agentic systems

  3. Expert perspective from Adi Polak on LLM interaction patterns

  4. Context engineering enables stateful AI systems vs. stateless prompt engineering approaches

  5. Distinction between prompt engineering and context engineering techniques

  6. Relevant for agentic system design

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Publisher excerpt: In this episode, Thomas Betts and Adi Polak talk about the need for context engineering when interacting with LLMs and designing agentic systems. Prompt engineering techniques work with a stateless approach, while context engineering allows AI systems to be stateful. By Adi Polak
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