>You don't hear as much about context engineering these days. The scale has tipped in favor of models that forgive noisier context and reason through messier terrain (larger context windows help too).

Newer models are only marginally better at ignoring the distractors, very little has actually changed, and managing the context matters just as much as a year ago. People building agents just largely ignore that inefficiency and concentrate on higher abstraction levels, compensating it with token waste. (which the article is also discussing)