alt Hacker NewsI think it's a great idea, but I'm somewhat anti-skill.
Every single skill I see just strikes me as a prompt. In every case it's easier for me to create a description of what is needed specific to the task. If I need a longstanding process I will discuss with the agent and create a document.
This is one of the most flexible tools ever made, and I frankly am not going to accept unnecessary systematization of how I use it.
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cemkum • today at 9:51 AM
> If I need a longstanding process I will discuss with the agent and create a document.
Isn't this just what a skill is?
jkhdigital • today at 8:42 AM
Nodding vigorously to that last comment. If I want to systematize something I put it in code. Natural language is not code.
> Every single skill I see just strikes me as a prompt
Both of which are just blocks of text being stomped into an LLM.
I've got a feeling that prompting as we're doing currently (huge blocks of text with very little structure), at least when looking for a deterministic result, will be looked back on as if we were living in the Stone Age. Not sure what the alternative will be, but I'm imagining something like a CI pipeline definition in YAML.