Context engineering
Essays on context engineering: what a model sees at inference time, project instruction files, and why the setup around the model decides the result.
Essays
- What Is AI Inference? The Using Stage Runs on Context — AI inference is the using stage: the model acts on whatever is in its window right now. Learn the four context misses that waste it, and how to fix each one.
- 100x Your AI. Same Model as Everyone Else. — Steve Yegge says the best AI users are 100x more productive than the rest. Identical models. Different architecture. Here's the index card.
- AI Mastering, PART III — Start with CLAUDE.md — MCPs, skills, agents — the AI tooling hype is loud. The single most impactful thing you can do takes 15 minutes: write a great CLAUDE.md. Here's how.