I really despise how Claude’s creators and users are turning the definition of “skill” from “the ability to use [learned] knowledge to enhance execution” into “a blurb of text that [usefully] constrains a next-token-predictor”.

I guess, if you squint, it’s akin to how biologists will talk about species “evolving to fit a niche” amongst themselves or how physicists will talk about nature “abhorring a vacuum”. At least they aren’t talking about a fucking product that benefits from hype to get sold.