CRESS Principles for Context Engineering - S is for Small

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CRESS Principles for Context Engineering - S is for Small

Among the things that most AI coding tool users get wrong, by far the biggest culprit is tackling too much at once.

This is a bad idea in software development, whether we're using LLMs or not.

But it's a REALLY bad idea when we are.

CRESS Principles for Context Engineering – S is for Small

We'll get to the effective context limits of Large Language Models in due course, but let's open with a software engineering fundamental. More than 75 years of people writing computer programs has taught us a few hard lessons, and one the of the most important is the size of the steps we take. In my…

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