LLM Skills Debate

Discussions revolve around questioning, defining, and critiquing 'skills' in the context of LLMs and AI agents, often portraying them as workarounds for lacking true intelligence or probing what specific skills are meant.

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bluesnowmonkey Mar 11, 2011 View on HN

Did I say anything about skills?

bitJericho Dec 8, 2016 View on HN

And what skills are those? Your phrasing is pretty shallow if that's all you got!

lupire Nov 25, 2025 View on HN

So "skills" are a hack around the LLM not actually being very smart? Interesting.

VirusNewbie Sep 11, 2024 View on HN

Dependent on skills is a good thing.

kelukelugames Sep 7, 2014 View on HN

which skill did you have in mind?

wbayg Jan 16, 2017 View on HN

Can you elaborate on "real skills"?

iLoveOncall Jun 1, 2022 View on HN

This doesn't sound at all like a marketable skill :/

nirvdrum Nov 21, 2014 View on HN

It's an acquired skill :-)

tinaleaton Oct 7, 2020 View on HN

Way to highlight the soft skills, they can be the hardest to master.

csnewb Mar 7, 2017 View on HN

What kind of skill set are you referencing?