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In this episode, Thomas Betts and Adi Polak talk about the need for context engineering when interacting with LLMs and designing agentic systems. Prompt engineering techniques work with a stateless approach, while context engineering allows AI systems to be stateful.
Read a transcript of this interview: bit.ly/4168Wcj
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In this episode, Thomas Betts and Adi Polak talk about the need for context engineering when interacting with LLMs and designing agentic systems. Prompt engineering techniques work with a stateless approach, while context engineering allows AI systems to be stateful.
Read a transcript of this interview: bit.ly/4168Wcj
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- Generally AI: infoq.com/generally-ai-podcast
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