Context Engineering: A practical, first-principles handbook inspired by Karpathy

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davidkimai · 1d ago

"Context engineering is the delicate art and science of filling the context window with just the right information for the next step." — Andrej Karpathy. A practical, first-principles handbook inspired by Karpathy and 3Blue1Brown for moving beyond prompt engineering to the wider discipline of context design, orchestration, and optimization.

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Context Engineering: A practical, first-principles handbook inspired by Karpathy

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