DITA = Context!

Michael Iantosca 05 Feb 2026
Michael IantoscaSenior Director of Content and Knowledge Management AvalaraThe term “context” has rapidly become another ingredient in the modern AI word salad. It gets tossed around freely alongside “agents,” “reasoning,” and “semantics,” yet is rarely defined with any precision. In practice, “context” is often reduced to whatever text happens to fit into a prompt window or a vector chunk. That is not context. That is proximity.