3 articles tagged ai.
After 40 years of writing code by hand, I looked down on vibe coding. Then I tried it. This is a look at what people mean by “AI slop,” which complaints hold up, what AI means for developers who are still learning, and why slop was never about how the code got written. An LLM is a chisel: in the right hands it makes something worth keeping, and in mine, a lump. AI didn’t create slop. It just made it cheaper to produce.
aiRobert asked Claude to describe their personality without flattery. Claude analyzed author's configuration files, code projects, and documented preferences to generate detailed personality assessment. Key finding: Claude effectively reverse-engineered personality traits from technical documentation and system design patterns, demonstrating how structured configuration files inadvertently reveal behavioral patterns and work preferences.
aiClaude skills are reusable, prompt-based automation shortcuts stored as `SKILL.md` files with YAML frontmatter and Markdown instructions. Best practices: narrow scope (one job per skill), specific instructions with examples, separate process (SKILL.md) from knowledge (REFERENCE.md), use XML tags for structure, control invocation via `disable-model-invocation` and `user-invocable` flags, and iterate based on real outputs.
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