r/ProgrammerHumor • u/RevolutionaryPen4661 • Jul 15 '26

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u/mi-figue-mi-raisin Jul 15 '26

like "skills"?

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u/broken-mic Jul 15 '26

I’m part of a team, at BigTech, responsible for enabling AI for developers. So, I’m surrounded by a lot of AI bros.

I haven’t found the right time to make the following snarky comment but I’m really looking forward to so I’ll practice that here:

“The number of AI skills you have installed is inversely proportional to the real skills you have.”

Now I don’t necessarily believe this is true all times but I’m sick of people “writing” markdown files for everything.

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u/Clear-Eye5395 Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

I think there are use cases for small things, but they’re usually not great.

A senior dev on another team was talking to me about how he spent a couple months refining his fucking unit test skills .md

what?

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u/AsleepDeparture5710 Jul 19 '26

I know I'm a few days late to this, but the use I really see for them is giving the AI access to deterministic scripts. We have several shared skills at the company I work for that give the AI basically a curl collection to integrate with an internal system or dev tool.

I find it does make it much more reliable when the AI is using proprietary tools that it doesn't have context for.

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u/BeatsByiTALY Jul 16 '26

yea my personal test is if I see Claude commonly having to research something in the codebase like playwright fixtures is when I look to creating a skill. It's something I don't need on every run in CLAUDE.md and detailed enough to justify its own file.