From a purely technical view, skills are just an automated way to introduce user and system prompt stuffing into the context right? Not to belittle this, but rather that seems like a way of reducing the need for AI wrapper apps since most AI wrappers just do systematic user and system prompt stuffing + potentially RAG + potentially MCP.

Yeah, there are a whole lot of AI wrapper applications that could be a folder with a markdown file in at this point!

Oracle's growth and value is in SaaS apps (NetSuite) and their cloud offering, not DB licensing. The economic impact of enterprises moving off Oracle DB is massively overstated here.

> Or maybe these benchmarks are all wrong

You must be new to LLM benchmarks.

And off by one errors.

"And off by one errors"

I own a Rivian too, and previously owned a Tesla. While I too have my gripes about the UX on the Rivian, it still beats the cr*p out of a Tesla.

Just curious in what ways, since you've actually owned both. I've only had Teslas, but I like the looks of Rivians.

While there are justifiable comments here about how LLMs behave, I want to point out something else:

There is no consensus on what constitutes a high quality codebase.

Said differently - even if you asked 200 humans to do this same exercise, you would get 200 different outputs.

> There's a significant blind-spot in current LLMs related to blue-sky thinking and creative problem solving. It can do structured problems very well, and it can transform unstructured data very well, but it can't deal with unstructured problems very well.

While this is true in my experience, the opposite is not true. LLMs are very good at helping me go through a structure processing of thinking about architectural and structural design and then help build a corresponding specification.

More specifically the "idea honing" part of this proposed process works REALLY well: https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/

This: Each question should build on my previous answers, and our end goal is to have a detailed specification I can hand off to a developer. Let’s do this iteratively and dig into every relevant detail. Remember, only one question at a time.

I've checked the linked page and there's nothing about even learning the domain or learning the tech platform you're going to use. It's all blind faith, just a small step above copying stuff from GitHub or StackOverflow and pushing it to prod.

You completely missed the point of my comment...

> Had the cost of building custom software dropped 90%, we would be seeing a flurry of low-cost, decent-quality SaaS offering all over the marketplace, possibly undercutting some established players.

Aha. Are developers finally realizing that just writing code doesn't make a business? We actually have a ton of SaaS companies being born right now but they're not making headway, because functionality and good code don't necessarily mean good businesses. Building a business is hard.

> They do not offer better "value on the dollar" they offer units that individually cost less but over a year of buying what you need to survive you pay more. That's how items are generally priced; smaller packages, higher unit price (as in, price per ounce).

Does the consumer not have all of the information available to them to make the comparison of the per unit cost between a dollar general and a local grocery?

Is information availability the only constraint keeping people from making optimal choices?

Objectively yes that's the case. However, people are irrational and their irrationality is being exploited.