Prompting & Context Engineering | Agentic Engineering | Oh My Learning

01 What Llms Actually Do 14 min read drafted 02 Prompt Anatomy: System, Developer, User, and Tool Turns 13 min read junior drafted 03 Core Prompting Techniques: Few-Shot, Role, and Output Formatting 13 min read mid drafted 04 Chain-of-Thought and Reasoning Effort: What Actually Helps and What's Theater 15 min read mid drafted 05 Structured Output: Constrained Decoding and Why It Beats Free-Form Parsing 13 min read mid drafted 06 The Limits of Prompting: Why Some Failures Aren't Prompt Problems 12 min read senior drafted 07 Context Engineering as a Discipline: The Context Window as a Budget 14 min read senior drafted 08 Context Failure Modes: Poisoning, Distraction, and Confusion 14 min read senior drafted 09 Retrieval: RAG vs. Long Context, and When Each Wins 9 min read senior drafted 10 Context Compaction and Sub-Agent Handoff for Long-Horizon Tasks 17 min read staff drafted 11 Memory Architecture: Types, Persistence, and Staleness 22 min read staff drafted