Best Of Product Roundup - July 19, 2025
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This week’s highlights feature:
Top 3 Long-Form Articles/Podcasts
Top 3 Tweets
Top 4 LinkedIn Posts or Short Videos
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In case you missed them, here are the posts from Emergent from the past three weeks:
Top Long-Form Content
Context Engineering: Bringing Engineering Discipline to Prompts
What we liked: Helps to define this new term “context engineering” and reframes prompt engineering as only the starting point.
Choice quote: “Prompt engineer: Maybe if I phrase it this way, the LLM will do what I want…Context Engineering: What inputs does this system need?”
Why most startups are building AI the wrong way
What we liked: Pushes us to acknowledge our pre-generative-AI product thinking baggage and gives us a path to think from AI first principles.
Choice quote: “You no longer need step-by-step flows. You no longer need the user to click through menus and logic trees.”
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