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>This really does sound like Computer Science since it's very beginnings. Except in actual computer science you can prove that your strategies, discovered by trial and error, are actually good. Even though Dijkstra invented his eponymous algorithm by writing on a napkin, it's phrased in the language of mathematics and one can analyze quantitatively its effectiveness and trade-offs, and one can prove if it's optimal (…
Surely claims about context engineering can also be tested using scientific methodology?
except the area is so hugely popular with people who unfortunately lack the rigor or curiosity to ask for this and blindly believe claims. for example this hugely popular repository https://github.com/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-t...
where the authors fail to explain how the prompts are obtained and how they prove that they are valid and not a hallucination.