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by jnpnj 51 days ago
it's strange to see software engineers using skills aka human description of small scripts instead of scripting things directly. often there were cli / tools / libraries to do what a skill does for many years. maybe it's culture issue, people who enjoy automation / devops / predictability will naturally help themselves, but other people just want to "delegate" and be done without trying.
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When people do that they are using skills wrong. The best way to use a skill is as a means to give targeted instructions on how to make use of cli / tools/ libraries, with the skill just covering the "squishy bits" that aren't easily encoded into something deterministic.