Context Is the New Code

The Prompt Isn’t the Problem The prompt is the last mile. The tip of the iceberg. What actually determines the quality of AI-generated code is everything you give the agent before the prompt: your spec, your architecture diagram, your mockup, your data model, your existing codebase, your test suite, your acceptance criteria. That’s context. And context is the new code. The Evidence Consider two approaches to the same task. Same Claude Code model. Same feature request: “Build a team management settings page.” Same developer.