Context Engineering Is the New Prompt Engineering

Everyone's writing better prompts. Few are building better context. That's the gap. Prompt engineering treats AI like a search box — craft the perfect query, get the perfect answer. Context engineering treats AI like a new team member — give them the right docs, the right access, and a clear understanding of how work actually gets done. As Andrej Karpathy put it , the hottest new programming language is English — but the program isn't the prompt. It's the context surrounding it. I've spent the last six months building AI-native workflows at Presidio , where I'm a Principal Solutions Architect. Not chatbots. Not demos. Production systems where Claude Code agents run real presales operations — client research, proposal generation, meeting analysis, deal tracking. The kind of work that used to live in someone's head and a dozen browser tabs. Here's what I learned about making AI actually useful. Prompts Are Requests. Skills Are Frameworks. The first mistake everyone makes: stuffing domain