Eighteen months ago, MCP was the thing. Every demo and chatbot connector was running on MCP under the hood. When I started seeing everyone talk about Skills, I got curious. How are MCP and Skills connected? Are they different lenses on the same problem?
I brought these questions to @greggyb again in our latest video. My favorite line from this one: the hottest programming language right now is English. Skills let non-developers write, iterate on, and share instructions that make an entire team's agents faster, no code required.
Are you using Skills yet? Curious where everyone's at.
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