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Context Engineering for Agents

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114 points 0x79de | 2 comments | 01 Jul 25 10:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.549s | source
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ares623 ◴[04 Jul 25 05:22 UTC] No.44461351[source]▶
Another article handwaving or underselling the effects of hallucination. I can't help but draw parallels to layer 2 attempts from crypto.
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FiniteIntegral ◴[04 Jul 25 07:27 UTC] No.44462031[source]▶
Apple released a paper showing the diminishing returns of "deep learning" specifically when it comes to math. For example, it has a hard time solving the Tower of Hanoi problem past 6-7 discs, and that's not even giving it the restriction of optimal solutions. The agents they tested would hallucinate steps and couldn't follow simple instructions.

On top of that -- rebranding "prompt engineering" as "context engineering" and pretending it's anything different is ignorant at best and destructively dumb at worst.

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1. skeeter2020 ◴[04 Jul 25 15:10 UTC] No.44465232[source]▶
We used to call both of these "being good with the Google". Equating it to engineering is both hilarious and insulting.
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2. triyambakam ◴[04 Jul 25 17:33 UTC] No.44466397[source]▶
It is a stretch but not semantically wrong. Strictly, engineering is the practical application of science; we could say that the study of the usage of a model is indeed science and so by applying this science it is engineering.