Technology
AI plugins and skills
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”.
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Trends
AI plugins and skills in the author's trends
all 20 thoughts →A link is an episode of the thought where AI plugins and skills is central or discussed in depth, or an author's quote that names it. The bar counts the shared episodes; blue bars are the months they meet on the June 2024 — November 2026 scale.
14 of the author's 20 thoughts are linked to AI plugins and skills · “Details” shows the shared episodes and a quote
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Familiar search, browsers and apps will give way to AI dialogue
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2of the trend's 80 episodes
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2of the trend's 36 episodes
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1of the trend's 60 episodes
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thoughts whose episodes don't feature AI plugins and skills centrally or in depth
11Judge AI by your own tasks, not by rankings13Hand AI the whole task and demand a finished result15Do not spend money on the hype around “agents”16What matters is grasping the whole task, not a profession or degree18Rebuild processes for AI instead of automating the old ones19Upload your test results to AI as a second opinion