Why Your AI Skills Should Be CLI-First: A Token Cost Analysis

Many AI skills are written so the model does all the heavy lifting: reading raw configuration files, running shell commands, and formatting output line by line. While this works, it comes at a cost: token consumption that scales poorly.

This post walks through a concrete analysis of a workspace setup skill that illustrates this problem and shows how shifting deterministic logic into a CLI binary can cut token consumption by over 95%.

How to Ask Questions as a New Engineer

As a developer, when you start off in an industry you might have a lot of question. A lot of them will not be technical, most of them will be management question. These are very common questions, but as a developer, you will have even more technical questions. For those technical questions, there needs to be processed to ask questions to your colleagues. There are THREE steps to asking a technical question.