---
id: "quote-harrison-chase-context"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["00:05:42"]
tags: ["industry-shift"]
related: ["concept-context-engineering", "entity-harrison-chase", "entity-langchain"]
speaker: "Harrison Chase"
speakers: ["Harrison Chase"]
sources: ["s24-prompt-engineering-dead"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s24-prompt-engineering-dead"
originDay: 24
---
# Harrison Chase on Context Engineering

## Quote

> *"Everything's context engineering. Context engineering is such a good term, I wish I came up with that term because it describes everything we've done at LangChain without knowing the term existed."*
>
> — [[entity-harrison-chase]], founder of [[entity-langchain]] (per speaker, in a Sequoia Capital interview)

## Significance

This quote is the source's **external validation** that the industry has moved past [[concept-prompt-engineering]] and is now operating in the era of [[concept-context-engineering]].

The speaker uses Chase's quote — coming from a founder of one of the most influential RAG/agent frameworks — to argue that the *plumbing-level* work of the AI industry is now context-pipeline architecture, not prompt artistry.

The rhetorical move that follows: *"…and yet even Context Engineering is not enough. The next discipline is [[concept-intent-engineering]]."*

## Enrichment Caveat

The enrichment overlay was **unable to verify** the exact wording or the Sequoia venue attribution. Directionally consistent with Chase's public stance, but quotation should not be cited verbatim without sourcing.