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I know this blog post's title implies losing my (programming) skills, and I will gladly address my feelings about how agentic coding has caused my problem-solving and coding to atrophy from lack of use. The main focus of this post is about losing, specifically deleting, my overly verbose and complicated skills and AGENTS.md files.

I was inspired to write this post after recently switching to the latest OpenAI GPT 5.6 models with Codex and OpenCode as my harnesses for Drupal development. In a previous post, I discussed that one approach to working with AI is to accept that every beginning and end of a session is like onboarding and offboarding a new team member. To help onboard an AI, we need to provide documentation, guidance, and workflows, typically implemented as AGENTS.md and agent skills.

AGENTS.md and agent skills are instructions added to your context to nudge the AI in the right direction. After switching to a more intelligent frontier model, I began to suspect I needed to rethink my assumptions about what the AI was capable of and how much initial context was required for the AI to succeed at a task. So I removed all my assumptions, deleted my AGENTS.md and skills directory, and started fresh.

Losing my agent skills

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