@dillon_mulroy: i think skills are a mistake and the wrong abstraction. i almost never want my agent auto invoking them and i have buil…
Summary
Dillon Mulroy argues that AI agent 'skills' are a flawed abstraction that unnecessarily consumes context window space, advocating for manual toggling of tools instead of auto-invocation.
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