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greymalik commented on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI   simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw
jrecyclebin · 4 days ago
Skill descriptions get dumped in your system prompt - just like MCP tool definitions and agent descriptions before them. The more you have, the more the LLM will be unable to focus on any one piece of it. You don't want a bunch of irrelevant junk in there every time you prompt it.

Skills are nice because they offload all the detailed prompts to files that the LLM can ask for. It's getting even better with Anthropic's recent switchboard operator (tool search tool) that doesn't clutter the system prompt but tries to cut the tool list down to those the LLM will need.

greymalik · 4 days ago
> Anthropic's recent switchboard operator

I don’t know what this is and Google isn’t finding anything. Can you clarify?

greymalik commented on How I use every Claude Code feature   blog.sshh.io/p/how-i-use-... · Posted by u/sshh12
rererereferred · a month ago
There's an Atlasian cli with Jira support https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/acli/reference/command...
greymalik · a month ago
Cloud only. My employer is still on an ancient data center version. But you can easily write a cli that wraps the REST API.
greymalik commented on How I use every Claude Code feature   blog.sshh.io/p/how-i-use-... · Posted by u/sshh12
rajamaka · a month ago
Claude is able to detect the lines of code selected in vscode anyway
greymalik · a month ago
As-is Gemini CLI and Codex. I run my CLIs in VSC and only using it as a file browser.
greymalik commented on Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI   developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/ridruejo
theshrike79 · 2 months ago
I’m still waiting for Gemini to add hooks and sub-agents
greymalik · 2 months ago
They will do it with needlessly complexity that is out of step with the competition, as they did with slash commands (toml) and extensions (skills-equivalent).
greymalik commented on The Programmer Identity Crisis   hojberg.xyz/the-programme... · Posted by u/imasl42
greymalik · 2 months ago
> One could only wonder why they became a programmer in the first place, given their seeming disinterest in coding.

To solve problems. Coding is the means to an end, not the end itself.

> careful configuration of our editor, tinkering with dot files, and dev environments

That may be fun for you, but it doesn’t add value. It’s accidental complexity that I am happy to delegate.

greymalik commented on Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP   simonwillison.net/2025/Oc... · Posted by u/weinzierl
simonw · 2 months ago
Part of it is that they gave a name to a useful pattern that people had already been discovering independently. Names are important, because they mean we can start having higher quality conversations about the pattern.

Anthropic also realized that this pattern solves one of the persistent problems with coding agents: context pollution. You need to stuff as little material as possible into the context to enable the tool to get things done. AGENTS.md and MCP both put too much stuff in there - the skills pattern is a much better fit.

greymalik · 2 months ago
How is it different from subagents?
greymalik commented on Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to factory workers in 2023   finance.yahoo.com/news/fo... · Posted by u/ripe
techdmn · 2 months ago
Seems like a good time to mention my old stand-by:

There is no such thing as a labor shortage. There may very well be a shortage of qualified people willing to work under the conditions and for the compensation a company would like to provide.

When stated that way you can see that there are several levers to pull, the most obvious being compensation.

greymalik · 2 months ago
I agree with that, but isn’t it also the case that if an employer raises wages enough to get the workers they need, they have to do some combination of passing those costs along to customers and reducing the benefits to shareholders, which in turn reduces their ability to remain a viable business and keep people employed? It’s a balancing act.
greymalik commented on I only use Google Sheets   mayberay.bearblog.dev/why... · Posted by u/mugamuga
greymalik · 3 months ago
It’s amazing to me how well Fred Brooks’ insights from 50 years ago hold up (plan to throw one away, in this case).
greymalik commented on Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edition (2013) [pdf]   sites.stat.columbia.edu/g... · Posted by u/ibobev
kianN · 3 months ago
This book is very relevant to those fields. There is a common choice in statistics to either stratify or aggregate your dataset.

There is an example in his book discussing efficacy trials across seven hospitals. If you stratify the data, you lose a lot of confidence, if you aggregate the data, you end up just modeling the difference between hospitals.

Hierarchical modeling allows you to split your dataset under a single unified model. This is really powerful for extracting signal for noise because you can split your dataset according to potential confounding variables eg the hospital from which the data was collected.

I am writing this on my phone so apologies for the lack of links, but in short the approach in this book is extremely relevant of medical testing.

greymalik · 3 months ago
It’s unclear which post you’re referring to - can you clarify which book you mean by “this book”?
greymalik commented on Getting AI to work in complex codebases   github.com/humanlayer/adv... · Posted by u/dhorthy
simonw · 3 months ago
I'm sticking to the original definition of "vibe coding", which is AI-generated code that you don't review.

If you're properly reviewing the code, you're programming.

The challenge is finding a good term for code that's responsibly written with AI assistance. I've been calling it "AI-assisted programming" but that's WAY too long.

greymalik · 3 months ago
It’s just programming. We don’t use a different word for writing code in an IDE either.

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