You Can Start Building LLM Skills Before You Know the Whole Shape
The article discusses the importance of starting small when building automation skills for handling validation violations. It emphasizes focusing on a single useful behavior rather than attempting to create a comprehensive system from the outset. By iteratively refining the skill based on real-world use, developers can create more effective automation tools.
- ▪Automation can encompass various tasks, and it's crucial to define specific behaviors rather than generalize.
- ▪Starting with a small, manageable task allows for immediate testing and feedback.
- ▪Real-world application of the skill helps identify gaps and informs future improvements.
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You Can Start Building LLM Skills Before You Know the Whole Shape By Barrett Sonntag | May 23, 2026 0 Comment The first time you stare at a backlog of a few hundred small repeated violations, all of them roughly the same shape, the natural thought is that this should be automated. Some validation rule trips on a missing attribute, or the same handful of conventions are wrong in dozens of templates, and the work is too tedious to do by hand and too varied to do with a single regex. So your brain reaches for the word automation, and from there it tries to assemble a system. That impulse is fine. The problem is that it tends to grow before anything useful exists.
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