[ammmir]

> # WRONG: Elixir has no elsif

How much context is eaten up by skills that rehash what a SOTA model should already know?

Maybe token-wise, it's a wash: Elixir/OTP does a lot without third-party libs, which would require massive npm dependencies to achieve the same thing.

[xmcqdpt2]

I think most of this trial and error "You are an experienced engineer" stuff probably hurts model performance. No one ever does comprehensive testing so eh, yolo.

https://github.com/agoodway/.claude/blob/main/skills/elixir-...

There are papers showing that models follow instructions less the more instructions they have. Now you think about how many instructions are embedded in that MD + the system prompt + likely a local AGENTS.md and at the end there is probably very little here that matters.

[cpursley]

Yeah, I honestly lean on the elixir agent one more over the full skill:

https://github.com/agoodway/.claude/blob/main/agents/elixir-...