How to Prevent Skill Drift When Iterating on AI Prompts?

petergyang · x · 2026-09-02

A developer seeks advice on preventing 'skill drift' when refining AI skills. The pattern involves manually iterating with the AI to fix a task, then asking the AI to update the skill code for one-shot success. However, this often causes the AI to overfit to the specific conversation thread, degrading the skill's general performance over time.

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