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If I were to say "Claude Skills can be seen as a particular productization of a system prompt" would I be wrong?

From a technical perspective, it seems like unnecessary complexity in a way. Of course I recognize there are lot of product decisions that seem to layer on 'unnecessary' abstractions but still have utility.

In terms of connecting with customers, it seems sensible, under the assumption that Anthropic is triaging customer feedback well and leading to where they want to go (even if they don't know it yet).

Update: a sibling comment just wrote something quite similar: "All these things are designed to create lock in for companies. They don’t really fundamentally add to the functionality of LLMs." I think I agree.