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![simonw Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::12497.png) Simon Willison [@simonw](/creator/twitter/simonw) on x 111K followers
Created: 2025-06-28 01:24:01 UTC

I haven't spotted this, but it's exactly correct: "context engineering" captures the fact that the previous responses from the model are a key part of the process, "prompt engineering" suggests that it's only the user prompts that matter


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