January 6, 2026
Last Updated: January 6, 2026
Everyone is obsessed with prompt engineering. Ten thousand tutorials on how to write the perfect prompt. Frameworks for structuring your requests. Templates for getting better outputs.
This is solving the wrong problem.
The bottleneck isn't how you ask. It's what the agent knows when you ask.
You can craft the most beautiful prompt in the world. If the agent doesn't have context it will still guess wrong. It will suggest adding functions that already exist. It will propose architectures that contradict your stack. It will confidently navigate to files that don't exist.
No amount of prompt engineering fixes missing information.
The real work is building systems that give agents the context they need before you even speak. A MAP.md that shows where everything lives. A journal that captures decisions and why they were made. Task contexts that preserve what you learned last time.
When context is infrastructure prompts get simpler. You stop writing essays to your AI. You stop re-explaining your codebase every session. You just point and say what you want.
The agent already knows the rest.
This is why companies that invest in context architecture will outperform. Not because they're better at prompting. Because they built systems where prompts barely matter.
The prompt engineering era is ending. We're entering the context infrastructure era.
The winners will be the ones who saw it coming.
Build your systems now. Structure your context. Make it navigable. Make it persistent. Make it the foundation instead of an afterthought.
Because in six months nobody will care about your prompts. They'll care about your context.
The future of AI collaboration isn't better questions. It's better answers to questions you haven't asked yet.
That only happens when context is first class infrastructure.
Not a hack. Not a workaround. The foundation.