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Designing Better Context for AI

AI · Prompting · Workflows

Placeholder note. Most attention goes to prompt wording, but the quality of an AI system's output is usually determined earlier — by what context it was given and how that context was structured.

A few working observations:

  • Structure beats volume. A small, well-organized context outperforms a large unstructured dump.
  • Context has a shape: who is speaking, what is known, what is wanted, what constraints apply.
  • Most "prompt engineering" failures are actually context failures.

This is a short note on purpose. Short, useful writing is legitimate.