It is interesting to compare this to LLMs - they also have the bounded context that you can see as the analogue to our working memory. It can contain enormously more bits of information than the 4 things the article says is the capacity of our working memory - but the 4 things can probably be much more complex internally - they are more like 4 pointers probably.
But at some level context engineering is very similar to what this article talks about.
Hello, author here. Lovely comment, and yes: not just similar, but exactly what the article talks about. In the middle. Where it unironically talks about being lost in the middle. And it seems to have made its own point, on even the careful reader!