---
title: "What Your AI Doesn't Know About You"
date: "2026-05-23T14:00:00+08:00"
categories:
- talks
tags: []
description: "AI performance depends less on clever prompts than on context. Give models the right goals, examples, constraints, history, and tools so they can act effectively."
talk_url: "https://talks.s-anand.net/2026-05-23-ai-unboxed-context-engineering/"
---

I conducted a session on Sat, 23 May 2026 at [IIM Alumni Singapore — AI Unboxed (1/4)](https://iimalumni.sg/).

**Summary**: AI performance depends less on clever prompts than on context. Give models the right goals, examples, constraints, history, and tools so they can act effectively.

[Here's the link to the session](https://talks.s-anand.net/2026-05-23-ai-unboxed-context-engineering/)

[![Comic](https://talks.s-anand.net/2026-05-23-ai-unboxed-context-engineering/comic-page.avif)](https://talks.s-anand.net/2026-05-23-ai-unboxed-context-engineering/)

**Links**:

- [Video](https://media.s-anand.net/2026-05-23-iim-ai-unboxed-context-engineering.webm) (126 min)
- [Transcript](https://talks.s-anand.net/2026-05-23-ai-unboxed-context-engineering/transcript.md)
- [Audio](https://github.com/sanand0/talks/releases/download/talks/2026-05-23-ai-unboxed-context-engineering.opus) (119 min)