Context Engineering Vs Prompt Engineering: the Real Difference
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Prompt
A Prompt is the textual, visual, or binary input submitted to a generative AI model to initiate and guide the generation of a specific response or action.
Prompt Engineering
Prompt Engineering is the practice of designing, structuring, and refining inputs (prompts) to get optimal, predictable outputs from generative AI models. It involves technique selection like chain-of-thought, few-shot prompting, and system routing.
Context Engineering
Context Engineering is the practice of designing, structuring, and optimizing the prompt context window to maximize the accuracy and efficiency of Large Language Models. It focuses on how raw data, historical messages, and systemic rules are retrieved, formatted, and pruned before being sent to the model.
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