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[−]chmod775 · 2026-08-21 Fri 13:15 UTC · link
Can we stop calling them skills? They're mostly just documents like any other. Call them cheat-sheets or guides.

Wrapping an .md file in all this circus, with lingo carefully designed to hide the fact that under the hood you're really just dumping another text file into the LLM's context , helps nobody but people's AI psychosis.

But I guess "my LLM can use skills" sounds a lot cooler than "my LLM can read text files", so we'd rather keep pretending really hard.

[−]WelkinFolk · 2026-08-21 Fri 13:18 UTC · link
I have started hearing echoes of how LLMs are "conscious" on every forum I go. Strange times.
[−]alwillis · 2026-08-26 Wed 16:28 UTC · link
The godfather of AI himself, Geoffrey Hinton, believes LLMs are conscious.
[−]edgyquant · 2026-08-21 Fri 13:24 UTC · link
Skill is the terminology the industry has adopted.
[−]chmod775 · 2026-08-21 Fri 13:58 UTC · link
And people once called radio "the wireless", vacuum tubes "valve", and computer processors "the mill".

Some terms and ideas are just shit, especially in the early stages of something new.

[−]HappMacDonald · 2026-08-21 Fri 15:34 UTC · link
Time to steer my horseless carriage onto the Information Superhighway! :D