All this AI, and yet it can't render properly on mobile.
Claude Skills
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Re: Claude Skills
#92I feel like a danger with this sort of thing is that the capability of the system to use the right skill is limited by the little blurb you give about what the skill is for. Contrast with the way a human learns skills - as we gain experience with a skill, we get better at understanding when it's the right tool for the job. But Claude is always starting from ground zero and skimming your descriptions.
IMO this is a context window issue. Humans are pretty good are memorizing super broad context without great accuracy. Sometimes our "recall" function doesn't even work right ("How do you say 'blah' in German again?"), so the more you specialize (say, 10k hours / mastery), the better you are at recalling a specific set of "skills", but perhaps not other skills. On the other hand, LLMs have a programatic context with c…
> IMO this is a context window issue.
Not really. It's a consequential issue. No matter how big or small the context window is, LLMs simply do not have the concept of goals and consequences. Thus, it's difficult for them to acquire dynamic and evolving "skills" like humans do.
Re: Claude Skills
#93I feel like a danger with this sort of thing is that the capability of the system to use the right skill is limited by the little blurb you give about what the skill is for. Contrast with the way a human learns skills - as we gain experience with a skill, we get better at understanding when it's the right tool for the job. But Claude is always starting from ground zero and skimming your descriptions.
> Contrast with the way a human learns skills - as we gain experience with a skill, we get better at understanding when it's the right tool for the job. Which is precisely why Richard Sutton doesn't think LLMs will evolve to AGI[0]. LLMs are based on mimicry, not experience, so it's more likely (according to Sutton) that AGI will be based on some form of RL (reinforcement learning) and not neural networks (LLMs). Mor…
The industry has been doing RL on many kinds of neural networks, including LLMs, for quite some time. Is this person saying we RL on some kind of non neural network design? Why is that more likely to bring AGI than an LLM?.
> More specifically, LLMs don't have goals and consequences of actions, which is the foundation for intelligence.
Citation?
Re: Claude Skills
#94getting hard to keep up with skills, plugins, marketplaces, connectors, add-ons, yada yada
All these things are designed to create lock in for companies. They don’t really fundamentally add to the functionality of LLMs. Devs should focus on working directly with model generate apis and not using all the decoration.
Me? I love some lock in. Give me the coolest stuff and I'll be your customer forever. I do not care about trying to be my own AI company. I'd feel the same about OpenAI if they got me first... but they didn't. I am team Anthropic.
Re: Claude Skills
#95I'd love a Skill for effective use of subagents in Claude Code. I'm still struggling with that.
Re: Claude Skills
#96Can I just tell it to read the entire Godot source repo as a skill ? Or is there some type of file limit here. Maybe the context windows just aren't there yet, but it would be really awesome if coding agents would stop trying to make up functions.
Download the godot docs and tell the skill to use them. It won’t be able to fit the entire docs in the context but that’s not the point. Depending on the task it will search for what it needs
Re: Claude Skills
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Contrast with the way a human learns skills - as we gain experience with a skill, we get better at understanding when it's the right tool for the job. Which is precisely why Richard Sutton doesn't think LLMs will evolve to AGI[0]. LLMs are based on mimicry, not experience, so it's more likely (according to Sutton) that AGI will be based on some form of RL (reinforcement learning) and not neural networks (LLMs). Mor…
The industry has been doing RL on many kinds of neural networks, including LLMs, for quite some time. Is this person saying we RL on some kind of non neural network design? Why is that more likely to bring AGI than an LLM?. > More specifically, LLMs don't have goals and consequences of actions, which is the foundation for intelligence. Citation?
Why are you asking them to cite something for that statement? Are you questioning whether it's the foundation for intelligence or whether LLMS understand goals and consequences?
Re: Claude Skills
#98It's pretty neat that they're adding these things. In my projects, I have a `bin/claude` subdirectory where I ask it to put scripts etc. that it builds. In the claude.md I then note that it should look there for tools. It does a pretty good job of this. To be honest, the thing I most need are context-management helpers like "start a claude with this set of MCPs, then that set, and so on". Instead right now I have separate subdirectories that I then treat as projects (which are supported as profiles in Claude) which I then launch a `claude` from. The advantage of the `bin/claude` in each of these things is that it functions as a longer-cycle learning thing. My Claude instantly knows how to analyze certain BigQuery datasets and where to find the credentials file and so on.
Filesystem as profile manager is not something I thought I'd be doing, but here we are.
Re: Claude Skills
#99I accidentally leaked the existence of these last Friday, glad they officially exist now! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/10/claude-skills/
"So I fired up a fresh Claude instance (fun fact: Code Interpreter also works in the Claude iOS app now, which it didn't when they first launched) and prompted:
Create a zip file of everything in your /mnt/skills folder"
It's a fun, terrifying world that this kind of "hack" to exfiltrate data is possible! I hope it does not have full filesystem/bin access, lol. Can it SSH?...
Re: Claude Skills
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, that is a very common thing that I do.
That's why the key word for all the AI horror stories that have been emerging lately is "recursion".
"Recursion" is a word that shows up a lot in the rants of people in AI psychosis (believe they turned the chatbot into god, or believe the chatbot revealed themselves to be god.)