Research: Agent Performance Is a Systems Problem, Not a Prompts Problem
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Version 3 2026-05-25 10:50 UTC · 58 items
The most significant development this pass is the institutional formalization of 'context engineering': an arXiv paper[^19665] and multiple enterprise frameworks[^19666][^19668] now anchor the term beyond practitioner p…
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Version 2 2026-05-25 04:46 UTC · 46 items
The most significant development this pass is a vocabulary crystallization: 'context engineering' is emerging as the preferred successor to 'prompt engineering' across multiple independent publications, representing a r…
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Version 1 2026-05-24 04:09 UTC · 34 items
A systems-centric view of AI agent performance is gaining traction among researchers and engineers: the key claim is that agent behavior emerges primarily from surrounding infrastructure code — the 'harness' — rather th…