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Posted by tosh 2 days ago

Jane Street: Socratic Tutor(github.com)
361 points | 84 commentspage 4
mw888 4 hours ago|
I think it's a great idea, but I'm somewhat anti-skill.

Every single skill I see just strikes me as a prompt. In every case it's easier for me to create a description of what is needed specific to the task. If I need a longstanding process I will discuss with the agent and create a document.

This is one of the most flexible tools ever made, and I frankly am not going to accept unnecessary systematization of how I use it.

bluerooibos 4 hours ago||
> Every single skill I see just strikes me as a prompt

Both of which are just blocks of text being stomped into an LLM.

I've got a feeling that prompting as we're doing currently (huge blocks of text with very little structure), at least when looking for a deterministic result, will be looked back on as if we were living in the Stone Age. Not sure what the alternative will be, but I'm imagining something like a CI pipeline definition in YAML.

wusel 4 hours ago||
A skill is usually auto-invoked and this one here has a bunch of trigger phrases. I personally dislike that. For this one especially I'd prefer explicit invocation.
jsw97 23 minutes ago||
That is configurable in a good harness. (Or should be.) It's not intrinsic to the skill idea.
cemkum 3 hours ago|||
> If I need a longstanding process I will discuss with the agent and create a document.

Isn't this just what a skill is?

jkhdigital 4 hours ago||
Nodding vigorously to that last comment. If I want to systematize something I put it in code. Natural language is not code.
proc0 1 hour ago||
Ah yes, I recall all those times as an engineer where my managers kept insisting I communicate like Socrates to improve my work. Software is solved.
Pragmata 3 hours ago||
This is honestly pretty damn good actually.

Running it with my local models it is a pretty helpful way to study up something where you already have some bases.

IshKebab 5 hours ago||
I dunno if you really need this. I asked AI to generate me a Lean tutorial with exercises and it did a really great job, one-shot with no skills. My 4th attempt to learn Lean and I'm actually making progress this time. (Mostly because you can say "I'm a bit stuck here, can you give me a hint" - it's really good at Lean even without access to the Lean compiler.)

Maybe it improves things a bit though. I might try it next time.

Gokul_e 3 hours ago||
can i use this for learning DSA
DeathArrow 3 hours ago||
At some point the context will degrade and the questions might not be useful.
zacian 3 hours ago||
One more interesting test I'd like to do with this skill is. "Is justified true belief knowledge?" and arrive at Gettier through Socratic questioning.
0815beck 5 hours ago||
brainrot
wordforge_jp 1 hour ago|
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