New comment by edblair in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

edblair — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:04:20 +0000

I assume there has been, but can anyone point me in the direction of some bench-marking where someone uses longer magic incantations vs just a really brief goal? I barely keep an agents file, and it seems to do fine in the end - perhaps I am missing something?

New comment by edblair in "Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor"

edblair — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:05:56 +0000

Half expecting the next few paragraphs to contain, verbatim, "The smoking gun was a performance issue in a development build of Debian. It's was a sharp observation, and sharper than you may think."

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New comment by edblair in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

New comment by edblair in "Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor"