I think the "difficulty" of software engineering is essentially constant no matter what abstraction level you move to, because human cognition adapts to new tools until it can fully utilize itself. Tools are only affordances, not a magic wand that makes work disappear. Great so…↗
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·@fchollet·Sep 25, 2026·essay·abstraction-level·cognition·engineering-difficulty·software-engineering
I just finished restructuring all my skills based on @AnthropicAI 's latest recommendations for how to build them. Here's what's different, why it matters, and how you can do it too. Our #1 AI newsletter (tenex.co/ultrathink) skill used to be one long file. Voice rules, example…↗
Introducing the Knowledge Agent Template @vercel dropped the Chat SDK so we built a full template on top of it that you can deploy in one click. Here's what's inside: • Add your sources: GitHub repos, YouTube, etc. directly from the UI • File-based agent using grep/find/cat • P…↗
@joshelman @akruglov Building a "Twitter -> Roam -> Neuralink" workflow using Zapier this weekend. cc @jack @Conaw @elonmusk @wadefoster↗




