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I often feel these types of blogposts would be more helpful if they demonstrated someone using the tools to build something non-trivial. Is Claude really "learning new skills" when you feed it a book, or does it present it like that because you're prompting encourages that sort of response-behavior. I feel like it has to demo Claude with the new skills and Claude without. Maybe I'm a curmudgeon but most of these type…
Save yourself the experience of having to write and maintain prompts like this.
> …*RIGHT NOW, go read… I don’t like the looks of that. If I used this, how soon before those instructions would be in conflict with my actual priorities? Not everything can be the first law.
I am not ashamed to admit this whole agentic coding movement has moved beyond me. Not only do I have know everything about the code, data and domain, but now I need to understand this whole AI system which is a meta skill of its own. I fear I may never be able catch up till someone comes along and simplifies it for pleb consumption.
Admittedly that stance is easiest to take if you were old enough, experienced enough already by the time this era hit.
Maybe this is a naive question, but how are "skills" different from just adding a bunch od examples of good/bad behavior into the prompt? As far as I can tell, each skill file is a bunch of good/bad examples of something. Is the difference that the model chooses when to load a certain skill into context?
> …*RIGHT NOW, go read… I don’t like the looks of that. If I used this, how soon before those instructions would be in conflict with my actual priorities? Not everything can be the first law.
take #73895 on how to fix ur prompt to make ur slop better.