AI

There’s no arguing AI makes your work faster and easier. However, is that always the desired outcome? If you complete a project faster, without really understanding why something was done in a certain way, you might feel productive, but is the final product really the best it could’ve been?

Agent skills are scalable units of institutional knowledge that compartmentalize smaller portions of one’s workflows. They aren’t as flashy as autonomous agents, but they offer something more valuable for senior engineers: reproducibility and leverage. The key is managing prompts and inputs deliberately.