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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jul-2026 05:01:09 JST Anil Dash

   Most documents we encounter in the course of doing our work are somewhere between middling to terrible. A few years ago, I wrote "Make Better Documents", a simple set of guidelines for making presentations, reports, etc.

   Now, I've turned that set of suggestions into a Better Documents skills.md file, an agent skill for those who use LLMs to help review documents. Naturally, it’s 100% free & open source, so I'd love for you to give it a try & let me know what you think.

   https://anildash.com/2026/07/24/make-better-documents-skill/

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   Karsten Schmidt (toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 15:49:49 JST Karsten Schmidt

   Reading through Anthropic's official repo for giving agents various "super skills"[1]... There's an "algorithmic art" skill and the instructions are explicitly encouraging pure deception as one of the key "critical guidelines":

   "The philosophy MUST stress multiple times that the final algorithm should appear as though it took countless hours to develop, was refined with care, and comes from someone at the absolute top of their field. This framing is essential - repeat phrases like "meticulously crafted algorithm," "the product of deep computational expertise," "painstaking optimization," "master-level implementation.""

   https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/algorithmic-art/SKILL.md

   For someone who's been working in this field for almost 30 years, this "skills.md" file is just the worst... and so far off the mark! 🤮
   
   Touch some effing grass, Anthropic (and all boosters)! How can so many people think this approach is _the_ future? The map is not the terrain...

   [1] Alone the premise of this repo is pure comedy gold and pure sadness in equal measures!

   #AlgorithmicArt #GenerativeArt #NoAI #Agents #Deception