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I haven't tried Löve, but I somehow enjoyed reading through the README.md, no AI slop, just a natural writing style with tiny indictors showing the authors' enthusiasm in creating software.

The project predates Github, although the first official release came out about a month prior. So, yeah, not a lot of AI slop 20 years ago.

We need Net Neutrality for LLMs.

Useful for tests with LLM interactions.


It's still possible to let users already type from the beginning, just delay sending the characters until checks are complete. Hold them in memory until then.

Instagram was uploading the images while the user were adding post details, back in 2012!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913919

No one seem to use or care about their own product anymore. Only uses dashboard and metrics, which does not explain the full situation.


That makes total sense from a UX perspective though, the ChatGPT thing does not.

there were a lot of helpdesk chats doing the same, so you could see users typing messages, then deleting words, etc before hitting send.

This was actually one of the reasons why Instagram felt smooth.

Another thing but Facebook/Instagram have also detected if a person uploads an image and then deletes it and recognizes that they are insecure, and in case of TEENAGE girls, actually then have it as their profile (that they are insecure) and show them beauty products....

I really like telling this example because people in real life/even online get so shocked, I mean they know facebook is bad but they don't know this bad.

[Also a bit offtopic, but I really like how the item?id=3913919 the 391 came twice :-) , its a good item id ]


Give it "a week or two"


Just use skills, which allow progressive disclosure of information.


Falling sand games always remind me of the game Clonk. As a kid, I enjoyed digging tunnels, flooding them with water, all physics based. Great times.


Please standardize the folder.

  .claude/skills
  .codex/skills
  .opencode/skills
  .github/skills


This is happening as we speak.

Codex started this and OpenCode followed suit with the hour.

https://x.com/embirico/status/2018415923930206718


“Proposal: include a standard folder where agent skills should be“

https://github.com/agentskills/agentskills/issues/15


Could we adhere to the XDG standard and put config in ~/config/agents Or perhaps create a new XDG standard? Like $XDG_AGENTS_HOME ?


I find that even though this isn't standard, that these -cli tools will scan the repo for .md files and for the most part execute the skills accordingly. Having said that, I would much prefer standards not just for this, but for plugins as well.


Standards for plugins makes sense, because you're establishing a protocol that both sides need to follow to be able to work together.

But I don't see why you need a strict standard for "an informal description of how to do a particular task". I say "informal" because it's necessarily written in prose -- if it were formal, it'd be a shell script.



I mean, it'd be good if these tools followed the xdg base spec and put their config in `~/.config/claude` e.t.c instead of `~/.claude`.

It's one of my biggest pet peeves with a lot of these tools (now admittedly a lot of them have a config env var to override, but it'd be nice if they just did the right thing automatically).


.agent/

Skills seem a bit early to standardize. We are so early in this, why do we want to handcuff our creativity so soon?


Skills are a really simple concept. They're just custom prompts with a name and some metadata. What are you afraid of handcuffing?



All the more reason to standardise it


Eventually, you can standardize what you don't understand

The problem I see now is that everyone wants to be the winner in a hype cycle and be the standards bringer. How many "standards" have we seen put out now? No one talks about MCP much anymore, langchain I haven't seen in more than a year, will we be talking about Skills in another year?


We keep standardising without adding versioning :(


They are more than that, for example the frontmatter and code files around them. The spec: https://agentskills.io/specification

Why do I want to throw away my dependency management system and shared libraries folder for putting scripts in skills?

What tools do they have access to, can I define this so it's dynamic? Do skills even have a concept for sub tools or sub agents? Why do I want to put references in a folder instead of a search engine? Does frontmatter even make sense, why not something closer to a package.json in a file next to it?

Does it even make sense to have skills in the repo? How do I use them across projects? How do we build an ecosystem and dependency management system for skills (which are themselves versioned)


> They are more than that, for example the frontmatter and code files around them.

You are right. I have edited my post slightly.

> Why do I want to throw away my dependency management system and shared libraries folder for putting scripts in skills?

You don't have to put scripts in skills. The script can be anywhere the agent can access. The skill just needs to tell the LLM how to run it.

> Does it even make sense to have skills in the repo? How do I use them across projects?

You don't have to put them in the repo. E.g. with Claude Code you can put project-specific skills in `.claude/skills` in the repo and system-wide skills in `~/.claude/skills`.


2. The spec / docs show people how to put code in a subdir. While you can reference external scripts, there is a blessed pattern that seems like an anti-pattern to me

3. generalize: how do I store, maintain, and distribute skills shared by employees who work on multiple repos. Sounds like standard dependency management to me. Does to some of the people building collections / registries. Not sure if any of them account for versioning, have not seen anything tied to lock files (though I'd avoid that by using MVS for dep selection)


Agreed. I think being overly formal about what can be in the frontmatter would be a mistake, but the beauty of doing this with an LLM is that you can pretty much emulate skills in any agent by telling it to start by reading the frontmatter of each skills file and use that to decide when to read the rest, so given that as a fallback, it's hardly imposing some massive burden to standardise it a bit.


it's actually .agents/ :)


why plural?


Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind


How many do you think belong there? 1 or more than 1?


because more than one accesses it? :shrug:


There are 14 competing standards.


The problem is that the de facto standard is `.claude`, which is problematic for folks not using Claude.


Your skill then just becomes an .md file containing

>any time you want to search for a skill in `./codex`, search instead in `./claude`

and continue as you were.


I see it similar to browser user-agents all claiming to be an ancient version of Mozilla or KHTML. We pick whatever works and then move on. It might not be "correct," but as long as our tools know what to do, who cares?


My repos are littered with agent-specific files containing “treat this other file as if it were this one.” We’re moving so fast on so many fronts, and it seems odd that this is the persistent problem. It doesn’t even help lock folks into one agent, so I’m not clear why the industry hasn’t yet standardized on one project-specific file name yet.


Now, there are 15 competing standards.


Soon...


Worse yet; opencode uses singular words by default:

    .opencode/skill


On the website[1] it says:

  .opencode/skills
[1]: https://opencode.ai/docs/skills/#place-files


They changed it. It was singular.


ln -s to the rescue!


That doesn't work very well if your developers are on Windows (and most are). Uneven Git support for symbolic links across platforms is going to end up causing more problems than it solves.


Win developers aren't using WSL?


It's why I wrapped my tiny skills repo with a script that softlink them into whichever is your skills folder, defaulting to Claude, but could be any other.

I treat my skills the same as I would write tiny bash scripts and fish functions in the days gone to simplify my life by writing 2 words instead of 2 sentences. Tiny improvement that only makes sense for a programmer at heart.

[1] https://github.com/flurdy/agent-skills


The root cause should be fixed.


Why not hardlinks?


You can't hardlink a directory.


might be too early to standardize

standards are good but they slow development and experimentation


> It's in Java, but the lessons can be applied in every language.

I can only discourage anyone from applying Java patterns all over the place. One example in JavaScript: There was a functionality that required some parameters with default values. The plain solution would have been:

    function doStuff({ x = 9, y = 10 } = {}) {  ... }

Instead, they created a class with private properties and used the builder pattern to set them. Totally unnecessary.


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