Dev argues hand-written agent skills beat AI-generated ones: less bloat, fewer skipped steps
lxfater · x · 2026-10-15
Developer lxfater shares his experience teaching personal knowledge to agents: AI-generated skills tend to be redundant, causing the agent to skip steps and hallucinate answers during execution. Hand-written skills stay lean and avoid context bloat that degrades model performance.
He poses it as a "hand-write vs auto-generate" debate and leans toward hand-writing — a useful takeaway for anyone building agent workflows: instruction quality matters more than generated length.
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