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Experimenting with skills over the last few months has completely changed the way I think about using LLMs. It's not so much that it's a really important technology or super brilliant, but I have gone from thinking of LLMs and agents as a _feature_ of what we are building and thinking of them as a _user_ of what we are building.

I have been trying to build skills to do various things on our internal tools, and more often then not, when it doesn't work, it is as much a problem with _our tools_ as it is with the LLM. You can't do obvious things, the documentation sucks, api's return opaque error messages. These are problems that humans can work around because of tribal knowledge, but LLMs absolutely cannot, and fixing it for LLM's also improves it for your human users, who probably have been quietly dealing with friction and bullshit without complaining -- or not dealing with it and going elsewhere.

If you are building a product today, the feature you are working on _is not done_ until Claude Code can use it. A skill and an MCP isn't a "nice to have", it is going to be as important as SEO and accessibility, with extremely similar work to do to enable it.

Your product might as well not exist in a few years if it isn't discoverable by agents and usable by agents.

>>empath+(OP)
> If you are building a product today, the feature you are working on _is not done_ until Claude Code can use it. A skill and an MCP isn't a "nice to have", it is going to be as important as SEO and accessibility, with extremely similar work to do to enable it. Your product might as well not exist in a few years if it isn't discoverable by agents and usable by agents.

This is an interesting take. I admit I've never thought this way.

>>empath+(OP)
Yeah, omnipresent LLMs are a kind of forcing function for addressing typical significant underinvestment in (human-readable) docs. That said, I'm not entirely sold on MCP per se.

>>empath+(OP)
As discussed in >>46777409

>>esafak+hf
Wow, that is almost point for point what I had written down in a bunch of documents I had been spreading around at work this week. Excellent post.