@dabit3: hard truth: most agent skills are not helping you, some are actively making things worse. we as engineers like control,…
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Engineer @dabit3 argues that most AI agent skills are unhelpful or harmful, claiming that with a frontier model and harness, good prompting is all developers really need.
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hard truth: most agent skills are not helping you, some are actively making things worse.
we as engineers like control, to feel important. admitting the model doesn’t need us is uncomfortable. but if you’re using a frontier harness + model, you only need good prompting
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