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"RAG is Dead, Context Engineering is King" — with Jeff Huber of Chroma

"RAG is Dead, Context Engineering is King" — with Jeff Huber of Chroma What actually matters in vector databases in 2025, why “modern search for AI” is different, and how to ship systems that don’t rot as context grows.

Article · 2025-08-19
Article—2025-08-19
5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026

…a formal job title everywhere is almost beside the point. The engineering practices that have developed around AI over the past three years — building coding agents, designing harnesses, managing context, evaluating model outputs, and…

Article · Richard MacManus · 2026-07-14
ArticleRichard MacManus2026-07-14
Why "Prompt Engineering" and "Generative AI" are overhyped

…of the UI, and finetuning output for as much of the writer’s context as possible to make it more useful. Latency matters, and cost matters, which are wonderful because these tend to be “regular engineering” type problems rather than AI…

Article · Latent.Space · 2022-11-25
ArticleLatent.Space2022-11-25
Skill engineering and the case against one-shot AI design

Paul Bakaus thinks the emerging discipline of “skill engineering” can make AI agents more capable — but he absolutely does not want to remove people from the creative process. He chats to Latent Space about his approach to design in the AI …

Article · Richard MacManus · 2026-07-02
ArticleRichard MacManus2026-07-02
Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience

…it’s about changing the organizational process for software engineering. Traditionally, you might do product requirements, then design work in Figma, then engineering implementation, and eventually production testing. In the past, these…

Article · Richard MacManus · 2026-10-02
ArticleRichard MacManus2026-10-02
Cline: The Open Source Code Agent — with Saoud Rizwan and Nik Pash

…RAG being a mind virus. This all ties into the newly-coined “context engineering” practice, which for Cline has a few different pieces: Dynamic Context Management: Employing strategies to intelligently read and summarize file content in…

Article · 2025-07-31
Article—2025-07-31
Full Story of Brex’s AI Hail Mary

…Brex’s team now consists of ~300 engineers and ~350 across EPD (Engineering, Product, & Design). Their team is split across product domains in addition to infrastructure. Their core product domains are the following: Corporate Card…

Article · Allen Park · 2026-01-17
ArticleAllen Park2026-01-17
How to Make AI UX Your Moat

…Well, that’s a start, but maybe this prompt is not enough context to the LLM to understand “refactor” properly. After some prompt engineering, maybe you discover that a better prompt is “You are a software developer. You will be given a…

Article · Anshul Ramachandran · 2023-07-07
ArticleAnshul Ramachandran2023-07-07
Warp CEO Zach Lloyd on why software factories are the next phase of coding

…the company. The factory will work most effectively when it has context from those systems and is integrated throughout the organization’s workflow. A lot of forward-deployed engineering work in this area is effectively a transformation…

Article · Richard MacManus · 2026-07-01
ArticleRichard MacManus2026-07-01
o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)

…take lazy questions at face value and doesn’t try to pull the context from you. Instead, you need to push as much context as you can into o1. Even if you’re just asking a simple engineering question: Explain everything that you’ve tried…

Article · Latent.Space · 2025-01-12
ArticleLatent.Space2025-01-12
Vercel's Andrew Qu on why agents are a new kind of software

…Software at Vercel, where he works with the CTO across internal engineering, product experimentation and emerging technologies. He has built libraries for MCP, created skills.sh and led the development of eve, Vercel’s framework for…

Article · Richard MacManus · 2026-07-03
ArticleRichard MacManus2026-07-03
The Day The AGI Was Born

…chat experiences in GPT3 involved hacky, unreliable prompt engineering to create contextual memory and extensive software engineering to allow follow-up corrections. This is now a “solved” problem and means you can write blogs iteratively…

Article · Latent.Space · 2022-12-03
ArticleLatent.Space2022-12-03
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