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    Matt Pocock’s six-month-old skills repo reportedly has more stars than React’s

    Gergely Orosz describes a conversation with Pocock about reusable skills for AI coding agents, AI’s impact on technical education and advice for junior engineers.

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    On September 17, 2026, Gergely Orosz said Matt Pocock’s skills repo was only six months old and had more stars than React’s. Sharing their conversation, Orosz listed topics including building reusable agent skills, local versus cloud agents, planning versus course-correcting and test-driven development with agents. His outline also highlights learning the fundamentals and the human side of teaching.

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    Gergely Orosz@GergelyOroszPretty incredible how the skills repo by @mattpocockuk is only 6 months old, and has more stars than the React one. We had to sit down and talk. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 05:48 How Matt got into tech 10:14 How Matt got into open source 12:58 Joining Vercel 18:39 Total TypeScript 23:21 AI’s impact on technical education 30:32 Building reusable skills for AI coding agents 40:46 The “smart zone” vs the “dumb zone” 45:02 The wayfinder skill 47:52 Why agents excel at software engineering 50:54 “Leading words” 1:01:10 Learning the fundamentals 1:09:17 Local vs. cloud agents 1:12:36 Planning vs. course-correcting 1:18:13 TDD and agents 1:23:06 Living in the UK 1:24:21 Teaching: the human part 1:28:36 Advice for junior engineers 1:31:07 Gardeners and great engineers 1:34:01 Book recommendation Brought to you by: • @turbopuffer – vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. https://turbopuffer.com/pragmatic • @linear – the product development system trusted by 40,000+ teams to plan and ship. Get six months of Linear Business for free: https://linear.app/pragmatic • @WorkOS – The fastest AI-native teams have to slow down for the hard problems. WorkOS makes sure auth, for your app and your agents, is never one of them. https://workos.com/ Thanks for the convo @mattpocockuk!20d
    The Pragmatic Engineer@Pragmatic_Eng"Imagine you had a human who wakes up every morning and cannot remember who they are. The guy from Memento. This is Memento-driven development. A human can work around a bad code base. But an agent can't do that. It starts fresh every single session. So you need to optimize your code base for that person. And it turns out that software fundamentals have been saying we should do that the entire time." Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk - educator, software engineer & creator of /grill-me20d

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    Gergely Orosz@GergelyOroszPretty incredible how the skills repo by @mattpocockuk is only 6 months old, and has more stars than the React one. We had to sit down and talk. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 05:48 How Matt got into tech 10:14 How Matt got into open source 12:58 Joining Vercel 18:39 Total TypeScript 23:21 AI’s impact on technical education 30:32 Building reusable skills for AI coding agents 40:46 The “smart zone” vs the “dumb zone” 45:02 The wayfinder skill 47:52 Why agents excel at software engineering 50:54 “Leading words” 1:01:10 Learning the fundamentals 1:09:17 Local vs. cloud agents 1:12:36 Planning vs. course-correcting 1:18:13 TDD and agents 1:23:06 Living in the UK 1:24:21 Teaching: the human part 1:28:36 Advice for junior engineers 1:31:07 Gardeners and great engineers 1:34:01 Book recommendation Brought to you by: • @turbopuffer – vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. https://turbopuffer.com/pragmatic • @linear – the product development system trusted by 40,000+ teams to plan and ship. Get six months of Linear Business for free: https://linear.app/pragmatic • @WorkOS – The fastest AI-native teams have to slow down for the hard problems. WorkOS makes sure auth, for your app and your agents, is never one of them. https://workos.com/ Thanks for the convo @mattpocockuk!20d
    The Pragmatic Engineer@Pragmatic_Eng"Imagine you had a human who wakes up every morning and cannot remember who they are. The guy from Memento. This is Memento-driven development. A human can work around a bad code base. But an agent can't do that. It starts fresh every single session. So you need to optimize your code base for that person. And it turns out that software fundamentals have been saying we should do that the entire time." Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk - educator, software engineer & creator of /grill-me20d