The Skill That Separates Weak AI Answers From Great Ones
The magic was never in the wording of your question. It was in everything the AI could see when it answered.
What "context" even means
When an AI answers you, it isn't reaching into some perfect well of truth. It's working with exactly what's in front of it at that moment — your question, plus whatever else has been placed in its view. That "whatever else" is the context. And it's doing more of the work than your prompt ever did.
Think about asking a new coworker a question. If they just started today and know nothing about your company, even a perfectly worded question gets you a generic answer. Give that same coworker your docs, your past decisions, and access to the right systems, and suddenly they're brilliant — with the same question.
The AI is the coworker. Prompt engineering was obsessing over how you phrase the question. Context...
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