Lance: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lance-martin-64a33b5/
How Context Fails: https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/22/how-contexts-fail-and-how-to-fix-them.html
How New Buzzwords Get Created: https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/07/24/why-the-term-context-engineering-matters.html
Content Engineering:
https://rlancemartin.github.io/2025/06/23/context_engineering/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16aaXLu40GugY-kOpqDU4e-S0hD1FmHcNyF0rRRnb1OU/edit?usp=sharing
Manus Post: https://manus.im/blog/Context-Engineering-for-AI-Agents-Lessons-from-Building-Manus
Cognition Post: https://cognition.ai/blog/dont-build-multi-agents
Multi-Agent Researcher: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/multi-agent-research-system
Human-in-the-loop + Memory: https://github.com/langchain-ai/agents-from-scratch
- Bitter Lesson in AI Engineering -
Hyung Won Chung on the Bitter Lesson in AI Research:
Bitter Lesson w/ Claude Code:
Learning the Bitter Lesson in AI Engineering: https://rlancemartin.github.io/2025/07/30/bitter_lesson/
Open Deep Research: https://github.com/langchain-ai/open_deep_research https://academy.langchain.com/courses/deep-research-with-langgraph
Scaling and building things that “don’t yet work”:
- Frameworks -
Roast framework at Shopify / standardization of orchestration tools:
MCP adoption within Anthropic / standardization of protocols:
How to think about frameworks: https://blog.langchain.com/how-to-think-about-agent-frameworks/
RAG benchmarking: https://rlancemartin.github.io/2025/04/03/vibe-code/
Simon’s talk with memory-gone-wrong: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/
Full Video Episode
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction and Background
00:53 The Rise of Context Engineering
01:57 Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering
05:56 The Five Categories of Context Engineering
10:02 Multi-Agent Systems and Context Isolation
14:48 Classical Retrieval vs Agentic Search
17:12 LLMs.txt and MCP Servers
24:51 Context Pruning and Memory Management
37:25 Memory Systems and Human-in-the-Loop
42:55 The Bitter Lesson Applied to AI Engineering
51:21 Frameworks, Abstractions, and Building for the Future
