Show us your agent skills · Hugo Bowne-Anderson's podcast

Slide 1: Show us your agent skills: AI workflows (personal code), my skills, meta points about AI dev and Conductor

Slide 2: AI-pilled on personal code: I used to be skeptical of “just use AI for XYZ”, very skeptical of personal software, and extremely skeptical of editing system configs. Now I do all of these things

Slide 3: AI-pilled on personal code: presentations and video, tools and software, dotfiles and Nix. Documentation? Accounting? Taxes?

Slide 4: Let’s take a look: system config, video, social, and personal software, skills and meta

Slide 5: Let’s take a look: dotfiles (Nix), Matt’s workflows, skills.sh and a personal repo

Slide 6: Demo

Slide 7: Skills are tools

Slide 8: The skill toolbox: you can spend lots of money on tools, but the only tools that matter are the ones you use

Slide 9: A bad workman blames his tools

Slide 10: Good skills are compounding: the best skills are the ones you use, and the ones you improve. This also applies to software

Slide 11: The problem with vibe coding: useful things get more useful with continuous improvement, one-off apps don’t compound, AI tooling favors the conscientious and pedantic. The good news: AI devtools are perfect for this

Slide 12: Compounding is about habits. Habits are about developer experience: feedback loops, flow state, and cognitive load

Slide 13: Skills experience: make skills easy to install, easy to improve, and easy to use

Slide 14: Skills experience: skills.sh, skills.sh, IDE (?)

Slide 15: How I use skills.sh: wire up a private repo to serve your skills, create an alias skills-add, create another alias skill-push