In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, anyone can write a prompt. But creating an effective one? That’s where science meets art, where strategy meets intuition, and where context engineering emerges as the defining skill of our AI-driven era. After years of building AI-powered systems and guiding teams through complex technological implementations, I’ve witnessed a fundamental truth: the quality of your AI interaction depends not just on what you ask, but on everything else the model sees. This is the essence of context engineering, a discipline that transcends simple prompt writing to encompass the entire informational ecosystem that shapes AI behaviour.