AIHacker Noonabout 7 hours ago
AI Agent Success Depends on Context Engineering
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Context engineering, not model choice, determines AI agent reliability in production. Datadog's 2026 State of AI Engineering report found 69% of text sent to models was system prompts, not task data. Average tokens per request more than doubled year over year. Teams must design what information enters the context window at each step.
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