Dev nukes all agent skills, notices no difference — skills 'gone by GPT 6.5'
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-09-19
BLUECOW009 claims "skills will be gone by GPT 6.5," quoting @peterpme's experiment: he deleted all his AI/agent skills two days ago and hasn't noticed any difference — it might even be slightly better. The exchange raises questions about whether hand-crafted agent skill/instruction files still matter as base model capabilities improve.
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