Reflecting on Mitchellh's AI Adoption Journey Blog Post

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been re-reading Michellh’s blog post and reflecting on my usage of SKILL and Agentic coding, and have realised its somewhat similar and there are lessons I can learn.

Chatbot Sucks

The interactivity of chatbots is nice when you’re exploring something. However it is rare that you are exploring something when you are trying to deliver with agents. Instead the pattern ends up being:

Build a prototype
Review a prototype
Re-build the prototype

LLMs have gotten so fast, so quickly, that in the interest of speed having prototypes are cheap (think about the Github graveyard of ideas).

Skills are meant to be vendored

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Skills are meant to be vendored

July 2026

Agent skills aren’t ‘code’ which you use as-is. They’re designed to be vendored, forked, modified for your use.

Go copy them and modify them! Something has been ’lost’ in the software community where there is this obsession with ‘DRY’.

But seriously, SKILLS are the equivalent of writing a gist or dumping something to pastebin. Stop taking it so seriously.

With that in mind, teams that insist on a harness via a skill or Claude plugin - to me that is madness. You’re standardising on how a person should write their code, or “work”. Unless the goal is for everyone to be a prompting machine I think thats the wrong outcome.

Skills on NoRaincheck

Reflecting on Mitchellh's AI Adoption Journey Blog Post

Chatbot Sucks

Skills are meant to be vendored

Skills are meant to be vendored