The State of Context Engineering
The gist
A writer's post and Forrester analysts argue AI agents are only as good as the context they get.
The focus shifts from bigger context windows to managing context as its own layer.
How it unfolded
- Feb 2024Google's marketing for Gemini 1.5 Pro focused mostly on its million-token context window, teasing a 10-million-token model in the lab.
- Jun 2025The author first spoke with the O'Reilly team about his book; they asked how they would know it wouldn't become obsolete in a few weeks.
- Jun 22, 2025The author published writing identifying four key context failure modes.