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Re: Claude Skills

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Post by blackoil »

Imnimo wrote: post #37

I 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.

Most of the experience is general information not specific to project/discussion. LLM starts with all that knowledge. Next it needs a memory and lookup system for project specific information. Lookup in humans is amazingly fast, but even with a slow lookup, LLMs can refer to it in near real-time.

Re: Claude Skills

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Post by xpe »

hansonkd wrote: post #28
phildougherty wrote: post #4

getting hard to keep up with skills, plugins, marketplaces, connectors, add-ons, yada yada

Thats the start of the singularity. The changes will keep accelerating and less and less people will be able to keep up until only the AIs themselves know how to use.

abstractions all the way down:

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Re: Claude Skills

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Post by singularity2001 »

rob wrote: post #44

Subagents, plugins, skills, hooks, mcp servers, output styles, memory, extended thinking... seems like a bunch of stuff you can configure in Claude Code that overlap in a lot of areas. Wish they could figure out a way to simplify things.

Also the post does not contain a single word how it relates to the very similar agents in claude code. Capabilities, connectors, tasks, apps, custom-gpts, ... the space needs some serious consolidation and standardization!

I noticed the general tendency for overlap also when trying to update claude since 3+ methods conflicted with each other (brew, curl, npm, bun, vscode).

Might this be the handwriting of AI? ;)

Re: Claude Skills

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Post by xpe »

skybrian wrote: post #57
hansonkd wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thats the start of the singularity. The changes will keep accelerating and less and less people will be able to keep up until only the AIs themselves know how to use.

People thought the same in the ‘90’s. The argument that technology accelerates and “software eats the world” doesn’t depend on AI. It’s not exactly wrong, but it leaves out a lot of intermediate steps.

Yes and as we rely on AI to help us choose our tools... the phenomena feels very different, don't you think? Human thinking, writing, talking, etc is becoming less important in this feedback loop seems to me.

Re: Claude Skills

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Post by alansaber »

mousetree wrote: post #25

I'm perplexed why they would use such a silly example in their demo video (rotating an image of a dog upside down and cropping). Surely they can find more compelling examples of where these skills could be used?

Dog photo >> informing the consumer

Re: Claude Skills

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Post by 999900000999 »

Can 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.

Re: Claude Skills

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Post by dwaltrip »

zobzu wrote: post #48
Imnimo wrote: post #37

I 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…

There are ways to compensate for lack of “continual learning”, but recognizing that underlying missing piece is important.

Re: Claude Skills

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Post by maigret »

pixelpoet wrote: post #56

Aside: I really love Anthropic's design language, so beautiful and functional.

Yes and fantastically executed, consistently through all their products and website - desktop, command line, third parties and more.
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