Agents Are Burning Tokens: Why Context Engineering Beats Prompt Tricks
Pavan_Belagatti · x · 2026-11-13
Pavan Belagatti argues developers too often hook an LLM to a few tools with a good prompt and expect magic. The agent then wastes massive tokens reconstructing disconnected context every time: which service, who owns it, which repo, is it healthy, what incidents are open, is a deployment safe. Instead, build a context layer that already knows every dependency of your service/product/feature/incident. As agents take on more software development work, context engineering is becoming essential — without the right information, planning, coding, testing, and incident response all fall apart.
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