Context engineering with Dex Horthy

The Pragmatic Engineer · Jul 15, 2026 · 1h 32m · transcript

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Knowing how LLM contexts work and how to work around context limitations – aka “context engineering” – is becoming more important for software engineers working with LLMs. Let’s look into what works and what doesn’t, today.

In this episode of The Pragmatic…