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slug: context-over-prompts
title: "Context Over Prompts"
summary: "A prompt is only as good as the context surrounding it."
order: 1
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Most people spend their time trying to write better prompts. I think they're solving the wrong problem.

A prompt is only as good as the context surrounding it. An agent with a mediocre prompt and excellent context will often outperform an agent with a brilliant prompt and almost no understanding of the project. The long-term opportunity isn't prompt engineering. It's building systems that continuously preserve, organize, and expose context so neither people nor agents have to keep reconstructing the same understanding from scratch.