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CC leak: skills are better than I thought

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Re: CC leak: skills are better than I thought

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Post by KaseKun »

kaelyx wrote: post #4

"You aren’t simply giving the agent instructions, you are changing how it operates." Why is the AI generated "Mic Drop" everywhere now.

haha interesting - the article is 99% written by me, but i had gemini review it and sharpen up the send off because it felt weak.

I guess this goes to show that even a subtle touch of an LLM can undermine authenticity.

edit: i've removed that line. I don't like to edit articles after publish (call me old fashioned, but i try to be honest and transparent), in this case though the line adds nothing and your call-out has taught me a good lesson: shit human writing is better than "good" AI writing.

Re: CC leak: skills are better than I thought

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Post by KaseKun »

SyneRyder wrote: post #3

I thought this was worth the quick read. Just as the article says at the start, I thought skills were essentially the same as pasting a long Markdown prompt document into the Claude Code window, or having Claude read the prompt file. But it seems if you invoke the skill, CC handles it quite differently, eg it's special cased for how it survives compaction. Changed my mental model of using Skills a bit anyway.

I was stubbornly of the same mindset, but had friends and colleagues that raved about skills, i thought it was hype cycle context management - i'm happy to be proven wrong

Re: CC leak: skills are better than I thought

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Post by bazmattaz »

KaseKun wrote: post #11
kaelyx wrote: post #4

"You aren’t simply giving the agent instructions, you are changing how it operates." Why is the AI generated "Mic Drop" everywhere now.

haha interesting - the article is 99% written by me, but i had gemini review it and sharpen up the send off because it felt weak. I guess this goes to show that even a subtle touch of an LLM can undermine authenticity. edit: i've removed that line. I don't like to edit articles after publish (call me old fashioned, but i try to be honest and transparent), in this case though the line adds nothing and your call-out ha…

I personally don’t think there is anything wrong with this. To the critiques I would say; this is the world we live in now. There are LLMs capable of essentially perfect writing skills. We need to get used to seeing a lot more content either written by or finished by LLMs.

The best practise for writing docs with LLMs in my opinion, which you have done, is to write as much as you can first then feed that into an LLM for context, and then work with the LLM to finalise it. Maybe half the time is spent writing and half the time is spent going back and forward polishing the doc.

Finally I think it’s important to give the LLM very clear writing guidelines based on your own writing style. I did this by feeding Claude around 20 of my handwritten docs and asked it to analyse my writing style and then add thy to its Claude.md. After a free round of iterations you can get great results!

Re: CC leak: skills are better than I thought

#16

Post by KaseKun »

bazmattaz wrote: post #15
KaseKun wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

haha interesting - the article is 99% written by me, but i had gemini review it and sharpen up the send off because it felt weak. I guess this goes to show that even a subtle touch of an LLM can undermine authenticity. edit: i've removed that line. I don't like to edit articles after publish (call me old fashioned, but i try to be honest and transparent), in this case though the line adds nothing and your call-out ha…

I personally don’t think there is anything wrong with this. To the critiques I would say; this is the world we live in now. There are LLMs capable of essentially perfect writing skills. We need to get used to seeing a lot more content either written by or finished by LLMs. The best practise for writing docs with LLMs in my opinion, which you have done, is to write as much as you can first then feed that into an LLM f…

Good advice. After seeing the capability of the skills for frontend design by impeccable crew ( https://impeccable.style ) i am tempted to make my own `/blog-polish` skill or similar

realistically, though, i quite like writing. The other article i've posted ( https://www.dardar.co/articles/your-data-agent-is-wrong ) is 100% me, but as a consequence it feels kinda preachy and verbose in places haha

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