Prompt engineering as it was known in 2025 is now obsolete, with modern AI agents consuming vast amounts of context beyond user input. Tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor utilize extensive system prompts, memory, skills, and interaction history, making user-provided text a small fraction of the overall context. This shift is driven by the need to manage and process this larger context, which can also lead to increased costs. AI
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RANK_REASON The item discusses a shift in AI development practices and the obsolescence of older methods, presented as an opinion piece or analysis.