Answered from Is system design still relevant in 2026? · Gaurav Sen · 2026-09-26
Gaurav Sen says a vector database is just a database with its own kind of indexing and storage, holding a different kind of data. Context engineering, in his telling, means the quality of an LLM's response rises with the context you feed into it. He describes loop engineering, a newer term, as working out how to orchestrate those calls the right way.
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