Knowing HOW to do something matters less than knowing how to EXPLAIN it. Google just confirmed where this is all heading. #AISkills #GoogleChrome #FutureOfWork #AI
Knowing how to do something on a computer is becoming less valuable everyday, but knowing how to articulate how to do something on a computer is becoming more valuable. Google's release of Skills Inside of Chrome yesterday is a perfect example of this. But before we talk about that, we need to talk about what skills are and why they're quickly becoming your most valuable business asset. In its most basic form, a skill is just text explaining how to do a specific task. There's nothing technical about it. Anyone can write this. If you've ever written a prompt before, you've already done 90% of the work. The idea of skills came from anthropic, the creators of Claude. And still today, if you're looking to create some skills, which I highly recommend, you should be using Claude to do. However, all the major models, ChatGPT, Gemini, now also incorporate skills. So if skills are just text wi
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Knowing how to do something on a computer is becoming less valuable everyday, but knowing how to articulate how to do something on a computer is becoming more valuable. Google's release of Skills Inside of Chrome yesterday is a perfect example of this. But before we talk about that, we need to talk about what skills are and why they're quickly becoming your most valuable business asset. In its most basic form, a skill is just text explaining how to do a specific task. There's nothing technical about it. Anyone c...
e scope, the better. But even for a narrow task, the instructions, or what's called the skill dot m D file, might be 300 lines of text. And then some skills will also contain what are called reference files. These are additional markdown files that might contain examples or guidelines. Don't worry too much about the structure, though. Just tell Claude to create a skill, and it'll handle the structure. But that's just the starting point. Then every time you use that skill, you're gonna provide feedback. And have...
become easier with a skill like this. Or one you create yourself. But the only reason this story is interesting to me personally is it confirms that this is the direction we're headed in. If you are waiting for a sign before investing a lot of your time into creating skills, this is it. AI progress is rarely easy to predict, but it looks like skills, at least when they're built well, are gonna be valuable for at least the next two years.
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Skills are described as becoming a durable business asset because they encode how to perform computer tasks in reusable instructions.
AI skills / knowledge work · asserts
Knowing how to do something on a computer is becoming less valuable everyday, but knowing how to articulate how to do something on a computer is becoming more valuable. Google's release of Skills Inside of Chrome yesterday is a perfect example of this. But before we talk about that, we need to talk about what skills are and why they're quickly becoming yo...
Narrowly scoped skills with detailed instructions and reference files can outperform broad generic prompts.
AI skills / scope · asserts
e scope, the better. But even for a narrow task, the instructions, or what's called the skill dot m D file, might be 300 lines of text. And then some skills will also contain what are called reference files. These are additional markdown files that might contain examples or guidelines. Don't worry too much about the structure, though. Just tell Claude to...
Orchestrator skills can chain multiple narrow skills into complex tasks, and browser-integrated skills suggest more browser work will become automatable.
AI orchestration / browser tasks · asserts
e scope, the better. But even for a narrow task, the instructions, or what's called the skill dot m D file, might be 300 lines of text. And then some skills will also contain what are called reference files. These are additional markdown files that might contain examples or guidelines. Don't worry too much about the structure, though. Just tell Claude to...
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