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Re: Claude Skills

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

I don't understand why it was necessary to develop a new protocol for this. LSP already exists for discovering what relevant functions there are to call, wouldn't it be better to have a single source of truth for function docs rather than a markdown file which points the agent at the function so that it can then read more or less the same information from the function's docstring?

This way you get a skills hierarchy which you have to maintain separately from whatever hierarchies exist for organizing your code. Is it really justified to maintain an entirely separate structure?

Re: Claude Skills

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Post by simonw »

SebastianSosa1 wrote: post #432
simonw wrote: post #225

Just published this about skills: "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP" https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/

Love your work but Pretty sure you got paid to endorse them

I didn't. That would be both grossly unethical and, in the USA, illegal if I didn't disclose it.

See comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45624613

I'm getting accused of paid shilling a lot right now.

(If Anthropic had paid me to write this they would probably have asked me NOT to spend a section of the article pointing out flaws in their MCP specification!)

Re: Claude Skills

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Post by tinodb »

stevenpetryk wrote: post #287
anomaloustho wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wrote elsewhere but I’m more interpreting this distinction as “RL in real-time” vs “RL beforehand”.

This is referred to as “online reinforcement learning” and is already something done by, for example Cursor for their tab prediction model. https://cursor.com/blog/tab-rl

Not sure that’s the same. They just very frequently retrain and “deploy a new model”.

Re: Claude Skills

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Post by Arkhaine_kupo »

KingOfMyRoom wrote: post #398
Arkhaine_kupo wrote: post #386

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do you think a non-programmer could realistically build a full app using vibe coding? For personal or professional use? If you want to make it public I would say 0% realistic. The bugs, security concerns, performance problems etc you would be unable to fix are impossible to enumerate. But even if you had a simple loging and kept people's email and password, you can very easily have insecure dbs, insecure protection…

Ideally, I want this to grow into a proper startup. I’m starting solo for now, but as things progress, I’d like to bring in more people. I’m not a tech, product or design person, but AI gives me hope that I can at least get an MVP out and onboard a few early users. For auth, I’ll be using Supabase, and for the MVP stage I think Lovable should be good enough to build and test with maybe a few hundred users. If there’s…

One of the issues AI coding has, is that its in some ways very inhuman. The bugs that are introduced are very hard to pick up because humans wouldnt write it that way, hence they wouldnt make those mistakes.

If you then introduce other devs you have 2 paths, they either build on top of vibe coding, which is going to leave you vulnerable to those bugs and honestly make their life a misery as they are working on top of work that missed basic decisions that will help it grow. (Imagine a non architect built your house, the walls might be straight but he didnt know to level the floor, or to add the right concrete to support the weight of a second floor)

Or the other path is they rebuild your entire app correctly. With the only advantage of the MVP and the users showing some viability for the idea. But the time it will take to rewrite it means in a fast moving space like start ups someone can quickly overtake you.

Its a risky proposition that means you are not going to create a very adequate base for the people you might hire.

I would still recommend against it, thinking that AI is more like WebMD, it can help someone who is already a doctor but it will confuse, and potentially hurt those without enough training to know what to look for.

Re: Claude Skills

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Post by SebastianSosa1 »

simonw wrote: post #433
SebastianSosa1 wrote: post #432

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love your work but Pretty sure you got paid to endorse them

I didn't. That would be both grossly unethical and, in the USA, illegal if I didn't disclose it. See comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45624613 I'm getting accused of paid shilling a lot right now. (If Anthropic had paid me to write this they would probably have asked me NOT to spend a section of the article pointing out flaws in their MCP specification!)

Fair enough, didn't know that it was illegal. The accusation was based on the fact that u released the same day as their release (natural to do so) and with high praise. Thx for the reply I retract my accusation.
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