Context Engineering: The Skill That Replaced Prompt Engineering

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

TL;DR: Patrick Debois coined DevOps in 2009 by naming what practitioners were already doing. In 2026, he’s doing it again with “Context Engineering” and the CDLC (Context Development Lifecycle): Generate, Evaluate, Distribute, Observe. The core insight: as coding agents get more capable, the bottleneck shifts from writing code to assembling the right context. More context isn’t better — more precise context is. Teams that treat context as a versioned, tested, governed engineering artifact will compound an advantage that’s hard to replicate.

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Context Engineering: The Skill That Replaced Prompt Engineering