Community theme evolution across three capability layers

13 Apr 2026

Figure showing community theme evolution in LLM agent development across three nested capability layers — Weights, Co... image
In this moment: Dragan Spiridonov AI Chapter
Found on LinkedIn, sharing here with the MoT community:
"Donald Norman argued in 1991 that tools don't amplify cognition … they change the task by changing its representation. A checklist doesn't improve memory. It gives you a different task: read and follow. The system sees enhancement. The user sees new cognitive demands. Precomputation … building representations once, reusing them across people and time … is the mechanism. Context engineers rediscovered this 35 years later."
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alindnbrg_cognitiveartifacts-contextengineering-representation-share-7449147172467580928-jg4T 
Dragan Spiridonov
Agentic Quality Engineer | Founder of Quantum Quality Engineering

In IT since 1996, establishing and leading QA/QE functions since 2014.
8 years at Alchemy, building QA/QE from scratch.
Since October 2025, the founder of Quantum QE, Ambassador for Agentics Foundation Serbian chapter, and creator of the Agentic QE framework and Agentic QE Fleet, an open-source AI-powered QA/QE platform.

Chapter Lead
Lisa Crispin
As they say, there's nothing new under the sun. I admit though, I'm ignorant on what is the big takeaway here? I'm not yet a practitioner of context engineering, so maybe that's why I don't see it.

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