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what makes it more likely that claude would read these .md files then?
Skills is hopefully put through a deterministic process that is guaranteed to occur, instead of a non-deterministic one that can only ever be guaranteed to happen most of the time (the way it is now).
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If so it would be most welcome since LLMs doesn't always consistently follow the folder full of MD files to the same depth and consistency.
what makes it more likely that claude would read these .md files then?
I fear the conceptual churn we're going to endure in the coming years will rival frontend dev. Across ChatGPT and Claude we now have tools, functions, skills, agents, subagents, commands, and apps, and there's a metastasizing complex of vibe frameworks feeding on this mess.
Having able to start off with a base skill level is nice tho as humans can't just load into memory like this
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This is just a formalization of an existing pattern many people were already using. Putting a list of short blurbs pointing Claude Code at a set of extra, longer sets of CLAUDE.md style information was being used to prevent auto loading that context until it was needed. Instead of assuming this is just change for the sake of change, it’s actually a nice way to support a usage pattern that many of us found works well…
If by "works well already" you mean "inconsistent prompt hacks that you have to constantly reinforce" then sure. CLAUDE.md holds about as much weight has the "Classroom Rules" craft posters hanging in most kindergarten classrooms.
I fear the conceptual churn we're going to endure in the coming years will rival frontend dev. Across ChatGPT and Claude we now have tools, functions, skills, agents, subagents, commands, and apps, and there's a metastasizing complex of vibe frameworks feeding on this mess.
Just wait until I can pull in just the concepts I want with "GPT Package Manager." I can simply call `gptpm add skills` and the LLM package manager will add the Skills package to my GPT. What could go wrong?
Just published this about skills: "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP" https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/
I’m kind of in stitches over this. Claude’s “skills” are dependent upon developers writing competent documentation and keeping it up to date…which most seemingly can’t even do for actual code they write, nevermind a brute-force black box like an LLM. For those few who do write competent documentation and have well-organized file systems and the risk tolerance to allow LLMs to run roughshod over data, sure, there’s so…
Just went to the comments searching for a comment like yours and I'm surprised it seems to be the only one calling this out. My take on this is also that "Skills" is just detailed documentation, which like you correctly point out, basically never exist for any project. Maybe LLM skills will be the thing that finally makes us all write detailed documentation but I kind of doubt it.
This perceived value would be much higher if the docs were to tangibly become part of a productive tool chain
I fear the conceptual churn we're going to endure in the coming years will rival frontend dev. Across ChatGPT and Claude we now have tools, functions, skills, agents, subagents, commands, and apps, and there's a metastasizing complex of vibe frameworks feeding on this mess.
You forgot mcp-everything! Yes, it's a mess, and there will be a lot of churn, you're not wrong, but there are foundational concepts underneath it all that you can learn and then it's easy to fit insert-new-feature into your mental model. (Or you can just ignore the new features, and roll your own tools. Some people here do that with a lot of success.) The foundational mental model to get the hang of is really just:…
Do you think a non-programmer could realistically build a full app using vibe coding?
What fundamentals would you say are essential to understand first?
For context, I’m in finance, but about 8 years ago I built a full app with Angular/Ionic (live on Play Store, under review on Apple Store at that time) after doing a Coursera specialization. That was my first startup attempt, I haven’t coded since.
My current idea is to combine ChatGPT prompts with Lovable to get something built, then fine-tune and iterate using Roo Code (VS plugin).
I’d love to try again with vibe coding. Any resources or directions you’d recommend?