Context rot and the rise of context engineering
Context overload and "lost in the middle" are pushing the field from prompt engineering toward context engineering: harnessing, scaffolding, shrinking, isolating, off-loading and caching.
Context rot/overload, Lost in the Middle, Attention budget depletion.
—>>> Context engineering, harnessing, scaffolding, progressive disclosure, context shrinking/isolation/off-loading, caching.