Context as Code: The Abstraction That Changes How You Build with LLMs
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Software development has a long history of finding the right abstraction and watching it unlock an entire class of capabilities. Relational databases gave us SQL and normalized data. Version control gave us reproducible history. Containers gave us environment portability.
Each time, the abstraction wasn't just a convenience — it changed what was possible to build and reason about.
I think context engineering is at a similar inflection point. And the abstraction we're missing is treating context as a structured, version-controllable, measurable artifact — Context as Code.