What is Context Engineering?
Context Engineering Is the New Prompting
In one of his low-key prophecy tweets, Andrej Karpathy wrote:
“Context Engineering is the future.”
If you’ve messed around with prompt engineering long enough, you’ve already felt the limits. You don’t need another syntax trick. You need something deeper. You need context.
And that’s why I made this:
Context Engineering Crash Course
Built for the Wipe Coding crowd. The hackers. The builders. The ones who know the gold isn’t in asking better questions — it’s in setting better scenes.
Why This Course?
Because none of the existing resources cut it.
Everyone’s still talking like it’s 2022 — writing prompts in playgrounds and hoping for the best. But if you’ve followed Karpathy, or just built with models lately, you know we’re already past that.
This course doesn’t sell dreams. It just shows you the damn patterns.
- 6 visual-first chapters
No fluff. No talking head videos. Just slides, illustrations, and real examples. Built to be skimmed, studied, reused. - Context vs. Prompt vs. System vs Vibe Coding
Breaks down the differences. Shows you where to put what — and why it matters. - Real-World Use Cases
Programming. Cooking. Legal writing. Blogging. Doctor’s advice. No toy problems. These are use cases you can steal from.
Why Now?
Because prompting is noise.
Context is signal.
We’re entering a phase where everyone has access to the same models — but not everyone knows how to use them well. The differentiator isn’t the model. It’s what you feed it.
If you’re tired of trial-and-error prompting and want a clear, reusable approach, this course gives you the lens.
Format
This is not a video course.
This is not an essay.
You get PowerPoint-style presentations.
Each chapter is a visual deep dive — diagrams, comparisons, patterns.
Easy to refer back to. Easy to plug into your own stack.
No filler. Just the good stuff.
TL;DR
Andrej Karpathy’s not guessing. He’s calling out what the internet’s already doing.
Prompting was a phase.
Context engineering is the upgrade.
Context Engineering Crash Course
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