This is key

Besides model capabilities, one of the most important aspects of AI-assisted development right now, is context management

Cursor et al try to automate that for the user, and it works up to a point. But at a certain level of complexity, the user needs to get actively involved in managing the context

It also seems like some people who say they are having very good results with agentic coding, take a lot of care in managing their cursor rules or claude.md files

I do like context engineering better, I also agree that there's a lot that goes into getting good answers out of LLMs and GPT wrapper is a gross oversimplification for many of the products being built on top of them. Just putting good evals in place is often a complicated task.