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YesClaude Code · 3 Feb 2026

Experimenting with skills over the last few months has completely changed the way I think about using LLMs

empath75 on Hacker News

In the thread “Agent Skills”

Helped: Treating LLMs as users exposed poor documentation and opaque errors.

Got in the way: Internal tools lacked clear docs and returned opaque error messages.

Experimenting with skills over the last few months has completely changed the way I think about using LLMs. It's not so much that it's a really important technology or super brilliant, but I have gone from thinking of LLMs and agents as a _feature_ of what we are building and thinking of them as a _user_ of what we are building. …