Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

The Alpha is in the Pipeline, Not the Prompt

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Matt McDonagh
Feb 15, 2026
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Most people are approaching AI like retail investors approaching the stock market: emotional, reactive, and focused on the wrong metrics.

They obsess over Context Engineering which is the art of crafting the perfect prompt, the subtle nudges to get the LLM to hallucinate less and reason more. They treat the AI like a magic oracle, believing the secret li…

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