James Coombs

Tag: #productivity

Your AI Skills Have the Same Problem as Your CLAUDE.md. Here's the Data.

Your AI Skills Have the Same Problem as Your CLAUDE.md. Here's the Data.

A controlled ablation, 42 runs: a behavioral-payload skill added zero marginal defect detection over a no-guidance control. A skill whose payload is documentation inherits documentation's 0%.

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Your CLAUDE.md Rules Achieve 0% Compliance. Here's the Data.

Your CLAUDE.md Rules Achieve 0% Compliance. Here's the Data.

A controlled ablation across nine tasks: a fully-specified CLAUDE.md changed agent behavior 0% of the time, identical to having no rules at all. The data, and why documentation cannot govern behavior.

aimachinelearningprogrammingproductivity
"Told" vs. "Known": The One Variable That Predicts AI Design Tool Quality

"Told" vs. "Known": The One Variable That Predicts AI Design Tool Quality

AI design tools succeed or fail on one variable: whether the model is told what to do or can query what is actually known. The distinction that predicts output quality.

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