Comment by ashdksnndck
7 hours ago
Is your view that this doesn’t work based on conjecture or direct experience? It’s my understanding Anthropic and OpenAI have optimized their products to use skills more efficiently and it seems obviously true when I add skills to my repo (even when the info I put there is already in existing documentation).
Hmm, that’s a good question! I think a bit of both.
In terms of experience, I’ve noticed that agents don’t always use skills the way you want; and I’ve noticed that they’re pretty good at browsing existing code and docs and figuring things out for themselves.
Is this an example of “the bitter lesson”? That’s conjecture, but I think pretty well-founded.
It could well be that specific formats for skills work better because the agents are trained on those specific formats. But if so, I think it’s just a local maximum.