@garrytan: This is interesting. Anyone experimenting with this? So far anytime I have adjacent skills I just tell it to DRY itself…
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Garry Tan asks if others experiment with merging adjacent AI skills into larger parameterized skills, sharing his preference for composing bigger skills with branching parameters.
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This is interesting. Anyone experimenting with this? So far anytime I have adjacent skills I just tell it to DRY itself up and turn it into a bigger skill with more parameters So far I found composing bigger skills with branching params is better
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