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Context Engineering Is the New Prompt Engineering
In 2024 we tuned prompts. In 2025 we built RAG pipelines. In 2026 the job is managing everything the model can see — context windows, retrieval layers, tool layers, agent state. Here's the full stack.
LangGraph + LangMem: Building Agents That Actually Remember You
Every demo agent forgets you the moment you close the tab. Production agents cannot. Here is how to wire LangMem's three memory types into a LangGraph pipeline — and what each one costs you.
Why Text-to-SQL Gets It Wrong (And What to Use Instead)
Frontier models answer roughly 84–90% of business metric questions correctly via raw SQL generation. The dbt Semantic Layer pushes that to 98–100%. The difference is not the model — it is the interface.
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I'm Chirantan Lonkar — Chiru — founder of Tarka Upskilling, an enterprise AI training company based in Mumbai.

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