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.
@levelsio Skill issue :)
@levelsio@levelsioI 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
@levelsio Skills are just for when you want to bottle/save some way of doing something
@levelsio@levelsioI 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
I love skills!
Most skills are just elaborate system prompts and a way to make & share custom LLm memory
Also way better than 99% of MCPs, just point it at an api and tell it to make a skill and now you have your own custom MCP
Helpful because I don’t want to type the same long commands over and over
Also nice because you can make it automatic, kinda like training your ai to do something again later
Becoming popular in big companies since you can have many people making skills and sharing them, now your agent can do things you didn’t even know existed
@levelsio@levelsioI 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