What LLM skils I’m using

After I started to better understand what LLM skills could bring to the table and how helpful can be in your workflow I’ve compiled a list with a few skills that are must for me and I’m using them extensively:

Diagnose

A skills by Matt Pockock it’s an amazing skill that helps you find even the hard-to-find bugs in your system, by following a specific set of steps to track down the issue, for me it’s quite valuable when searching for bugs that are not easy to find or the ones that doesn’t have much information about it.

GitHub: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/diagnose

Grill Me

Another skill by Matt Pockock, /grill-me is a powerful skill that helps you prepare a plan for development before you even start, asking a lot of questions regarding an idea you specify it helps you iron down every wrinkle to help you clear the plan or the idea you have asking you right questions(A lot of question and I mean a lot!).

GitHub: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/productivity/grill-me

Write a skill

Another skill from Mr. Pockock it helps you create your own skills by providing a step by step guide for every aspect of creating it, it makes it a breeze when you decide there is a skill that can help you but could not find anything already made.

GitHub: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/productivity/write-a-skill

Requesting Code Review

A skill by Jesse Vincent and they live up to the name I can tell that much! Extremely helpful, we all sometime overlook some things when we race to finish an urgent task or something small that can be a quick, using this skill will keep you honest, helping you catch issues and small things that can cause problems in the future or something that was missed initially, totally recommend.

GitHub: https://github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/main/skills/requesting-code-review

Software architect

Amazing skill given to me from a colleague of mine who wrote it, very helpful before making any big features invoking this skill helps the LLM to focus and provide him with guidance how to “think” like a software architect and not doing stupid things a long the way.

GitHub: Not my skill to give away :/

Answer after research

The skill I’ve created myself, because I’ve grew tired of the LLM “hallucinating” things when I ask questions, answering from memory even for things that can be checked in the code base.

GitHub: https://github.com/IvalinV/skills/tree/main/answer-after-research

Conclusion

The more you use LLM’s the more you understand that you are the one in charge and it’s up to you make it “smarter” and “teach” in such manner that will be helpful to you(and others). LLM’s are a powerful tool used properly, go tame your LLM and build something amazing.