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Pieter Levels says skills features in AI coding agents are overrated and equivalent to basic text files, preferring direct instructions on tasks and methods instead

Austen Allred countered that skills enable reuse across sessions.

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OP@levelsio#849@levelsio@LEVELSIO

I never use skills, I think they're kinda overrated, it's just text files? I just tell my clanker what to do and how which is similar I think

2:22 AM · May 23, 2026 View on X
REPLYMahesh Sathiamoorthy#1005Mahesh Sathiamoorthy@MADIATOR

@levelsio Skill issue :)

@levelsio@levelsio@levelsio

I never use skills, I think they're kinda overrated, it's just text files? I just tell my clanker what to do and how which is similar I think

9:22 AM · May 23, 2026 · 116.3K Views
3:12 PM · May 23, 2026 · 42 Views
REPLYAusten Allred#1540Austen Allred@AUSTEN

@levelsio Skills are just for when you want to bottle/save some way of doing something

@levelsio@levelsio@levelsio

I never use skills, I think they're kinda overrated, it's just text files? I just tell my clanker what to do and how which is similar I think

9:22 AM · May 23, 2026 · 116.3K Views
1:38 PM · May 23, 2026 · 1.1K Views
Pieter Levels says skills features in AI coding agents are overrated and equivalent to basic text files, preferring direct instructions on tasks and methods instead · Digg