Zed CEO on skills hype: great for reference knowledge and complex workflows, a token waste otherwise
zeeg · x · 2026-10-13
Zed CEO Nathan Sobeck pokes fun at an industry contradiction: people who say "skip plan mode, just talk to the agent" then push skills for things a conversation handles fine. His line: skills are genuinely useful for building reference knowledge and complex multi-step workflows, but macros like /bro are "useful yet arguably a waste of tokens." A sober pushback on the current skills craze in coding agents.
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