alt Hacker Newswhy did this simple idea take so long to become available? I remember even in llama 2 days I was doing this stuff, and that model didn't even function call.
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I still don't really understand `skills` as ... anything? You said yourself that you've been doing this since llama 2 days - what do you mean by "become available"?
It is useful in a user-education sense to communicate that it's good to actively document useful procedures like this, and it is likely a performance / utilization boost that the models are tuned or prompt-steered toward discovering this stuff in a conventional location.
But honestly reading about skills mostly feels like reading:
> # LLM provider has adopted a new paradigm: prompts
> What's a prompt?
> You tell the LLM what you'd like to do, and it tries to do it. OR, you could ask the LLM a question and it will answer to the best of its ability.
Obviously I'm missing something.
Skills only work if you have a full blown code execution environment with a model that can run ls and cat and execute scripts and suchlike.
The models are really good at driving those environments now which makes skills the right idea at the right time.