CONTEXT ENGINEERING 📚 Series 2 Overview - THE LEGENDS · Clief Notes Picture your best instruction from rung one, word for word, handed to a new hire on their first morning, with no files, no sample of your work, no idea who the customer is, and nobody telling them what they may touch and what they may not. The instruction is perfect, the work comes back wrong anyway, and it is not the new hire and it is not the sentence. It is everything you did not hand over with it. That everything has a name, context, and as of today it has a whole rung. 📚 What just opened Context Engineering, the whole rung, seven posts. The Series 2 Overview sets the map, then three classes, one claim each: (1) A context window is a budget, not a bucket (2) Two examples beat a page of adjectives (3) The answer depends on what the model is allowed to touch Then the payoff, where all of it lands on one quick card you can save, then where I stand on rung two, and one short closing post that shows you where this fits in ICM. By the payoff you will have seven lines written down, one page you can paste into a fresh window on ANY day and get the good answer back (yes, the same prompt you walked in with, you will not change a word of it). 🪜 Where you are standing If you climbed rung one, you are ready, and bring your best prompt from that series with you, because the Overview puts it to work before class one even starts. If you have not climbed it yet, the bottom is still open and it is still the place to start. This rung stands on that one, the Start Here post is pinned and it is a short read, and I would rather you arrive a week late than arrive without it. PROMPT ENGINEERING 📚 Series 1 Overview - THE LEGENDS · Clief Notes 📆 One series a week, the same as I told you at the bottom. Rung three, Memory Engineering, lands next week, and then two more to the top.

Rung two built the window. Rung three is what survives it, open from today. There is something you have told the model three times this month. Nothing big. The client signs as Sam, never Samuel. We stopped saying "the portal" in June. It got it right every time and it forgot every time, and somewhere around the third time you stopped noticing you were the one doing the remembering. That is not the model being slow. That is a window closing, with nothing on the other side. 📚 What just opened Memory Engineering, seven posts, the whole rung at once. The Overview draws the line the rung stands on, this turn against what survives between turns, and the three classes carry one claim each: (1) Most memory fails by keeping too much (2) A memory you cannot find is worse than none (3) A memory is a belief, not a record Then the payoff, the whole series on one card, my perspective on rung three, and the closing post on where memory sits inside ICM. By the end you own a memory: one small file the room reads every time you open it, a drawer behind it for the rest, and a date in your calendar for the day you read it back. No system in it, and you will notice you never built one. 🪜 Where you are standing (Rung 1 & Rung 2 should be completed) If not, you can find them here they are in order and should be taken from series 1 to series 2 and so on: PROMPT ENGINEERING 📚 Series 1 Overview CONTEXT ENGINEERING 📚 Series 2 Overview Climbed rung two? Bring the room's file, the seven lines, because this rung decides what gets written into it, what stays out, and what gets crossed out the day it stops being true. The Overview asks one more thing before class one: the three things you type to the model in every fresh window. Three, not thirty. Not there yet? Rungs one and two are still open and still the order, the Start Here post is pinned. Honest word on this one: it is the rung people stop on, because nobody ever asked most of us to decide what should be kept. So the steps are smaller and every wrong version is shown in full. If you have never built anything that had to remember, that is who I wrote it for.

Everything in this course has been really good, and @Bas Rosario context engineering series is right up there with it! The quick card is practical. It gives you seven lines to write before you ask an AI for anything, a way to check what you're feeding it, and a way to test it. One line from it has stuck with me: lucky is context you never wrote down. So I went back through a weekend of my own prompts to see which lines I actually use. What I was doing before. I always said what I wanted. Most of the time I said why, and where the files were. Sometimes I said what was off limits. What good looks like, I gave as adjectives. I told it to make things "awesome" or "bulletproof," and the AI can't see an adjective. What bad looks like, I never gave up front. I gave it three times in one weekend, but only as corrections after a draft came back wrong: don't name where I work, don't introduce me to people who already know me, and don't make it sound like I walk into a client with a solution already picked. Bas bet that line seven is the one most people skip. He was right about me. What I did about it. I wrote one room for the prompt I use most. Those repeat corrections are now line seven, each with one line on why. Then I tested it the way the card says, in fresh windows. Without the room, the answer sounded good but filled the gaps with things that weren't true. With the room, it left blanks where only I knew the answer. The test also showed the room wasn't perfect. One of my rules was too strict and blocked a check I needed, so I fixed it and saved a second version. What I'm going to do next. Write line seven before the first draft, not after. Replace my adjectives with a real example or a check you can pass or fail. Build a room for the next prompt I use a lot, and keep adding the corrections to it so I stop repeating them. This is the kind of stuff I can really dig into. Thanks, @Bas Rosario

I was working on some development with Pushing Talk and while working on it I wanted to use Jev and Qwen to get a screen grab of what's on my screen to contextualist the autocorrection to what's going on and it turns out that because there's the subtle placeholder text "do anything" on Codex. It thought that that's what I wanted to say and would paste that into every prompt when I was in Codex. NO! QUALMS_!! No hugging face hack but it is somthing that you do have to bear in mind when prompting. Words. Matter. //A<3

As some of you know I have been working on a few modules for the classroom WELCOME TO THE WISE ARCHITECTS CORNER - THE LEGENDS · Clief Notes For a while now the sign on the door read 👷 Coming Soon 🚧 The First Rung Is Now Open Welcome. This is where we will demonstrate how AI works, where we build human-AI systems that last, and where the person at the keyboard stays the author of the whole thing. You do not need a technical background for any of it. You bring the curiosity, I bring the blueprints, and we build the understanding together. 🪜 Here is the climb This whole corner is one ladder, five rungs, and each rung raises what you can do with the machine: (1) Prompt engineering, talking to the model (2) Context engineering, giving it what it needs (3) Memory engineering, making it remember (4) Loop engineering, making it check its own work and then repeat (5) Graph engineering, running a whole system of them, with you in the chair You walk in asking "how do I even talk to this thing?" and you walk out running a system of them. That is the journey, and the top of this ladder is a system of machines, the bottom is one sentence, and the bottom is open today. 📚 What is open today The whole first rung, Prompt Engineering, all six posts: the Series 1 Overview, three classes, the payoff with its quick card, and my perspective on the rung everybody says is dead. 📆 A few things before you start One series a week. Rung two lands next week, rung three the week after, and this corner is going to grow fast, five weeks to the top. Follow these modules in order. You will find that each rung stands on the one below it, the second assumes you took the first, the third assumes you took the second, and the path only works if YOU climb from the bottom. Start at the map. The Start Here post shows you how every series in this corner runs and points you to the first door, the Series 1 Overview. Do not skip it (I know, you want the techniques, they are one door further and they are not going anywhere, the map is a short read, and it saves you a whole series of wondering where you are).