Stack Overflow's data science director argues context engineering is the current AI bottleneck

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In a No Dumb Questions episode published July 24, Stack Overflow Director of Data Science Michael Foree walks through what AI context actually is, why it constrains output quality more than model capability, and how to become a better context engineer. The framing matches what practitioners running agent pipelines report: prompt quality plateaued, context assembly did not. Aimed at a non-expert audience, so the depth is introductory.