- Published on June 27, 2025
- In AI Features
Context Engineering is the New Vibe Coding
"Context engineering is 10x better than prompt engineering and 100x better than vibe coding."
Image by Diksha Mishra
- By Mohit Pandey
Two years ago, Python developers were getting replaced by prompt engineers, at least in the tech Twitter space. The past year was all about vibe coding with tools like Cursor, Windsurf, Replit, and others. Now, the AI community has a new-found obsession: context engineering — the art and science of structuring everything an LLM needs to complete a task successfully.
If prompt engineering was about the clever, (mostly) one-liner instructions, context engineering is about writing the full screenplay. Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, also the person who called English the hottest programming language and made “tab tab tab” the default, is now all in favour of context engineering.
“+1 for ‘context engineering’ over ‘prompt engineering’,” Karpathy said in a p
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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