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1. iainme+Qb[view] [source] 2026-02-03 15:09:04
>>moored+(OP)
This stuff smells like maybe the bitter lesson isn't fully appreciated.

You might as well just write instructions in English in any old format, as long as it's comprehensible. Exactly as you'd do for human readers! Nothing has really changed about what constitutes good documentation. (Edit to add: my parochialism is showing there, it doesn't have to be English)

Is any of this standardization really needed? Who does it benefit, except the people who enjoy writing specs and establishing standards like this? If it really is a productivity win, it ought to be possible to run a comparison study and prove it. Even then, it might not be worthwhile in the longer run.

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2. theshr+TJ1[view] [source] 2026-02-03 21:53:27
>>iainme+Qb
Skills can contain scripts, making them a lot more versatile than just a document.

Of course any LLM can write any script based on a document, but that's not very deterministic.

A good example is Anthropic's PDF creator skill. It has the basic english instructions as well as actual Python code to generate PDFs

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3. gitgud+hT1[view] [source] 2026-02-03 22:43:43
>>theshr+TJ1
How is this different from a README.md with a code block?
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