Context Engineering Is a Skill. Most Developers Are Skipping It.

Your AI coding agent isn’t underperforming because the model is weak. It’s underperforming because you haven’t built the environment it needs to do its best work. I was just trying to ship a product. What I found changed how I use every AI coding tool. I was working on Claude Code and Cowork, building a SaaS project with Opus 4.6 - the best model Anthropic has right now. The code it was producing was correct, it was working, but something felt off. Every output looked the same. Same patterns, same structure, same generic feel, no matter how I changed the prompt. I started digging into why.