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The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT | WIRED

LANGUAGE IS MEANINGLESS without context. The sentence “I’m going to war” is ominous when said by the president of the United States but reassuring when coming from a bedbug exterminator. The problem with AI chatbots is that they often strip away historical and cultural context, leading users to be confused, alarmed, or, in the worst cases, misled in harmful ways.

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Claims about DOGE and AI – Marginal REVOLUTION

The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new artificial intelligence tool to slash federal regulations, with the goal of eliminating half of Washington’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post and four government officials familiar with the plans. The tool, called the “DOGE […]

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Why context engineering – not prompting – is the key to building reliable AI agents

The Large Language Models that power generative AI and the agents that rely on them have a memory problem that limits the usefulness of prompts alone.

The term "context engineering" was recently popularised by Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke in a tweet:

"I really like the term ‘context engineering’ over prompt engineering.

It describes the core skill better: the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM."

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