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