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Forget Prompt Engineering—Context Is the Real AI Differentiator

Seven words into Cursor. Thousands of invisible tokens make the magic. Prompt engineering? That's yesterday's buzzword.

Developer in Cursor editor with expanded context window showing codebase snippets and prompts

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Prompt engineering misleads; context (95% of input) drives AI quality. 𝕏
  • Top products like Cursor and Perplexity win via context pipelines, not clever words. 𝕏
  • Shift to context engineering or stay behind—models are commodities. 𝕏
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