Comment by troupo

> Sounds to me like you'd benefit from providing detailed instructions to LLMs about how they should avoid duplicating functionality

That they routinely ignore.

> which means documenting the functionality they should be aware of

Which means spending inordinate amounts of time writing down about every single function and component and css and style which can otherwise be easily discovered by just searching. Or by looking at adjacent files.

> which is exactly the kind of thing this new skills mechanism is designed to solve.

I tried it yesterday. It immediately duplicated functionality, ignored existing styles and components, and created ad-hoc queries. It did feel like there were fewer times when it did that, but it's hard to quantify.