It is total quackery. When you zoom out in these discussions you begin to see how the AI yappers and their methodology is just modern-day alchemy with its own jargon and "esoteric" techniques.
See my comment here. These new context engineering techniques are a whole lot less quackery than the prompting techniques from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44428628
The quackery comes in the application of these techniques, promising that they "work" without ever really showing it. Of course what's suggested in that blog sounds rational -- they're just restating common project management practices.
What makes it quackery is there's no evidence to show that these "suggestions" actually work (and how well) when it comes to using LLMs. There's no measurement, no rigor, no analysis. Just suggestions and anecdotes: "Here's what we did and it worked great for us!" It's like the self-help section of the bookstore, but now we're (as an industry) passing it off as technical content.
simonw|8 months ago
ModernMech|8 months ago
What makes it quackery is there's no evidence to show that these "suggestions" actually work (and how well) when it comes to using LLMs. There's no measurement, no rigor, no analysis. Just suggestions and anecdotes: "Here's what we did and it worked great for us!" It's like the self-help section of the bookstore, but now we're (as an industry) passing it off as technical content.
asadotzler|8 months ago