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The industry keeps confusing the layers as each new one gets named. Prompt engineering, context engineering, intent engineering — these are not synonyms, not a progression where each replaces the last, and not marketing terms for the same activity. They are distinct engineering disciplines that operate at different levels of abstraction, answer different questions, and break in different ways when absent.

This post maps the layers as they actually exist in 2026, drawing on the academic formalisation, the practitioner evidence, and the production failures that clarify where each layer's jurisdiction begins and ends.