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hungryhobbityesterday at 11:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

If I had a nickel for every dev who has written a "productivity suite" of skills, and shared it with others as if it was a burst of innovation that everyone can benefit from (when it's really extremely specific to that dev and their workflow) ... well I'd have a lot of nickels.

It turns out productivity skill sets for Claude are a bit like opinions and assholes (everyone has one, and ...)

I mean, just to give you an idea of how common this is, my CEO made a suite like this ... although he had the self-awareness to realize what he made was very specific to him.


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fishfaselltoday at 2:59 AM

Agreed. Skills are hardly transferrable unless you are just focusing on globally applicable things like syntax, structure, etc. The most useful skills are things that are not well known and project/ organization specific. The "tribal knowledge" aspect of coding.

tonytampstoday at 12:38 AM

You are entirely correct. Matt Pocock is still a nice guy with reasonable opinions and shares a lot with us.

I've personally learned from reading his skills.