Re:Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless
by x3n0ph3n3 on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:08PM
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This was very insightful. I've only just begun playing with some agent workflows and building out documentation to help it navigate my code base. Asking it to give me the top 10 unanswered questions from analyzing the docs and code was very useful.
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Re:Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless
by JamesSwift on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:23AM
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YAGNI is the best tool in your toolbox for AI agents. Dont build out what you think will be useful, layer things into your AI toolbox as they prove they are needed. Especially for claude, running `/init` ends up with a lot of really unnecessary/hallucinated info. Keep it all simple and layer on top.