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2026-08-31

• 19:13 UTC (new) (history) 2026-08-31 Developing Claude Code skills . . . . mbork – As I’ve mentioned some time ago, I’ve been using Claude Code for some time now. Now, a disclaimer is in place. I’m still a bit skeptical about the current “AI” hype – in particular, I really avoid using the term “AI”. I consider it a very misleading marketing gimmick. When non-technical people hear the phrase “artificial intelligence”, a computational model capable of generating more or less random sequence of letters which sometimes create a semblance of “understanding” or “intelligence” is probably not what they think. Well, I am really a layman, too – I have some extremely vague understanding what happens inside these “chatbots”, but other than that they seem a bit magical to me as well – but my point is, they are really closer to a giant spreadsheet with billions (or even more) of cells than to Skynet. Anyway – even I have to admit that what Claude Code is able to do is pretty impressive. However, I quickly discovered that the OOTB experience is less than ideal. One of the easier ways to enhance Claude (and other LLMs, apparently) is by writing skills, which are basically reusable prompts or procedures for performing some tasks, written in natural language.

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