AI skill files are only a starting point, engineer argues
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An engineer argues that downloadable AI "skill files" are like a family ragù recipe: useful as a starting point, but the real gains come from your own repeated corrections over time. He points to a colleague who does excellent AI work yet has no skill files to share — his setup is just himself, the model and long hours of iteration, including roughly half a billion tokens spent refining a single design task. The claim is the author's own argument, not a measured result: a downloaded skill file helps, but the compounding improvement comes from iterating on your own work, "one Sunday at a time."
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An engineer who does excellent AI work has no skill files to share — his setup is just him, the model and long hours of iteration, including roughly half a billion tokens spent refining one design task. The author argues a downloaded skill file is like a family ragù recipe: useful, but the compounding gains come from your own corrections, one Sunday at a time.
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