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Softerware - by Mike Caulfield - The End(s) of Argument

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Keep your Claude skills loose for better performance

Saw this earlier today, and it’s funny because it’s true, as they say: I've been doing some large scale things with Claude Code and Claude Cowork recently, and the thing I will tell you about these new “skills” based prompting frameworks is they are best developed as a set of values/objectives/reminders and a bit of code for those things that are tiresome to watch the LLM fumble toward each time. Any more than that? You’re probably mucking things up. These architectures are what I call "softerware", and the trick is to get some of the predictability of software while avoiding the rigidness…

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