I'd Rather Be Writing, by Tom Johnson

I'm trying to build out a course on agent skills. For a while I've been looking for something more substantial and stable to sink my teeth into (similar to what I did with API documentation), and I think agent skills just might be it.

This is Part II of a guest post from Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt, an assistant professor at James Madison University. In this post, Jeremy transitions from describing the reasons for the gap between academics and practitioners (explained in

This is a guest post from Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt, an assistant professor in the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University. In this post, Jeremy explains why there's such a gap between industry practitioners and academics. He lays out the case with everything from language, cadence, pressures, motivations, job cycles, promotions, and mo...

The thing I'm most excited about with AI lately is SKILLs. (I have to capitalize the word at first so you know I'm talking about agent skills rather than just general capabilities; however, I'll subsequently just refer to agent skills as skills.) I've now built about 10 skills for various purposes, and I'd like to write a post that shares some of my thoughts around skill buildin...