AddyOsmani.com - Agent Skills

kept by eddie may 04

AI coding agents skip senior-engineer practices by default, so Addy Osmani created Agent Skills to encode workflows like specs, tests, and reviews as non-optional agent steps.

The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions
The evolution of LLM extensions shows that giving agents general-purpose computing abilities is more effective than specialized tool protocols like MCP.
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Dynamic context discovery
Cursor introduces dynamic context discovery, pulling only necessary data into the context window via files, reducing agent tokens by up to 46.9%.
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The next two years of software engineering
Software engineering roles shift as AI speeds coding; juniors must become AI-proficient specialists while seniors maintain deep system knowledge.
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AddyOsmani.com - 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
Engineering success at Google depends more on navigating people, alignment, and ambiguity than on technical brilliance, according to 21 lessons from 14 years.
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