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@poteto Expects Agent Skills to Shrink Into Saved Prompts

He keeps simplifying pstack as models improve; his guide covers over- and under-guiding an agent.

@rauchg writes that there will be times you over-guide the AI, which may know better than you. There will be times you under-guide it, and it goes off track, has the wrong biases or misses context. How well you manage this is “the #0 skill I look for,” he writes.

@poteto replied that he wrote about this in his pstack guide. Asked about it later, he says he is constantly updating and simplifying pstack.

“The more capable models get, the less instructions they need.”

Over time, @poteto expects skills to shrink more and more, “until they’re basically just saved prompts.”

Sources

  1. @poteto on X · Oct 24, 1:42 PM PT
  2. @rauchg on X · Oct 24, 1:03 PM PT
  3. @poteto on X · Oct 24, 1:58 PM PT
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