From Lab to Life16 Aug 2025 · Essay
From Prompts to Precision: The Art & Science of Context Engineering
Mastering the discipline that transforms how we communicate with artificial intelligence.
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The thesisChasing Jarvis: The Bottleneck Was Never the CodeWe are learning to build and ship real digital products using AI coding agents. The gap between idea and shipped product is no longer technical, it is contextual.The methodEvery Product Needs a HomeBuilding a modern website in the age of AI agents: a manual, told through the new website of The CuratorThe researchContext as Architecture: Full-Corpus Grounding, Orchestrated Agentic Development, and Compliance-by-Design in a Production AI Assistant PlatformThis paper reports a longitudinal design-science case study of a single production artefact — Lumina, a multi-tenant AI assistant platform — across two complete generations built fourteen months apart in capability terms and seven months apart in calendar terms.
From Lab to Life14 Aug 2025 · Essay
The Context Engineer's Toolkit: Essential AI Tools for All Levels
A practical toolkit for context engineering at every skill level. Covers model-selection frameworks, prompt patterns, and how to match a tool's capability to the complexity of the use case.
From Lab to Life13 Aug 2025 · Essay
Understanding Large Language Models: A Complete Manual
A complete non-technical manual on LLMs. Covers how they work and what they are not, the training process, in-context learning, and the "stochastic parrot" debate.