#16718 Sep 2026
Can Plugins and Skills Make AI Worse? New Rules for Working With Strong Models
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Extensions of AI systems — plugins, skills, instruction packages and connections to external data — that improve a model's work in a specific area. The flip side: extra instructions can hurt strong models, so an extension's benefit has to be checked by comparing results “with it and without it”.