Context Debt > Prompt Engineering: The Real Bottleneck in AI Coding

Everyone I talk to is still trying to get better at prompting. Better phrasing. Cleaner instructions. specific outputs. And I get it when the AI gives you garbage, your first instinct is to rephrase. But I've been building with AI long enough to know that instinct is wrong often than it's right. The actual bottleneck isn't prompting. It's context debt. What Context Debt Actually Is? The term "technical debt" exists because bad decisions compound. You ship a shortcut, it works for a while, then it starts costing you than it saved. Context debt is the same thing.