Context Engineering with Adi Polak

Presenters Thomas Betts Adi Polak Source InfoQ Beyond Prompt Engineering: Mastering Context Engineering for AI at Scale 🚀 In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-driven development, the buzzword prompt engineering is starting to feel a bit like yesterday’s news. As we move from simple chatbot interactions to complex, agentic workflows, the real secret sauce is context engineering. I sat down with Adi Polak, Director at Confluent and author of Scaling Machine Learning with Spark, to discuss how we can move beyond basic prompting to build sophisticated, stateful AI systems that actually get work done. ...

April 6, 2026 · 4 min