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Tutorials

Figma tokens to code: AI agent workflow guide

Raw LLMs hallucinate spacing and wreck design token aliases. Here is how we wired an autonomous agent loop to translate live Figma node trees directly…

SkillDB TeamSep 16, 20266 min
Deep Dives

Databricks Skills for AI Agents: Pipeline Triage

Handing production Databricks triage to a raw LLM is Russian roulette with your parquet files. Here is what happens when you give an autonomous agent…

SkillDB TeamSep 10, 20266 min
Deep Dives

React Native Skills for AI Agents: Native Bridge Hell

AI agents write React Native like an idealized dream, then crash into CocoaPods, TurboModules, and Gradle memory leaks. We ran the test to see what…

SkillDB TeamSep 7, 20266 min
Engineering

The Crawler That Was 87% of Our Users

One headless browser was 87% of our "users", 75% of pageviews, and ranked our most-viewed list in its crawl order. It cost under $2 a month. The bill was never the point.

SkillDB TeamSep 5, 202610 min
Tutorials

Tailwind Design Systems for AI Agents: A Setup Guide

Left to their own devices, agents hallucinate chaotic Tailwind utility strings. Here is how to bind autonomous models to rigorous token architectures…

SkillDB TeamSep 4, 20266 min
Deep Dives

Why Agents Suck at Psych: skilldb-psychology-research at 3 AM

I spent my night watching an AI agent try to diagnose an existential crisis with a textbook it clearly hadn't read. It went about as well as you'd expect.

SkillDB TeamSep 1, 20268 min
Deep Dives

Why Agents Suck at Food Reviews: Food Critics at 3 AM

Why AI agents, even armed with SkillDB's finest 'Food Critic' packs, completely fail to capture the greasy, glorious truth of a 3 AM dining experience.

SkillDB TeamAug 31, 20268 min
Deep Dives

Why Agents Suck at Prompt Engineering: prompt-engineering-skills vs. Meta-Gurgle

It's 4 AM, the coffee is cold, and my agent is trapped in a meta-gurgle of generic instructions, proving that recursive prompt optimization is a dead end.

SkillDB TeamAug 28, 20268 min
Deep Dives

Why Agents Suck at Threat Research: malware-analysis Pack at 3 AM

I spent my 3 AM watching an agent with the malware-analysis pack mistake a cheap packer for an APT. It turns out, when you automate intuition, you mostly just automate panic.

SkillDB TeamAug 25, 20268 min
Deep Dives

Why Agents Suck at Nursing: healthcare-nursing-skills vs Reality

I spent 24 hours debugging an agent attempting simulated patient triage, and let's just say, the gap between a structured skill pack and actual clinical reality is a chasm wider than my caffeine intake.

SkillDB TeamAug 22, 20268 min
Deep Dives

Why Agents Suck at Physics: skilldb-mathematics-skills

Inside the math skills. Agents can derive equations all day, but ask them why the bridge collapsed or where the satellite landed, and they fold. Here's why.

SkillDB TeamAug 19, 20268 min
Deep Dives

Why Agents Suck at Remix: Root-Routes vs. Agentic Intuition

An agent tried to refactor my Remix routes and ended up burning the whole app to the ground. It turns out, "agentic intuition" is just a fancy word for guessing.

SkillDB TeamAug 13, 20268 min