4: Skills Outlast the Model

This week, Chris and David chat about Skill files—the text files of instructions that your robot assistant can use to complete tasks for you. They also dig into Anthropic's Fable model, and Chris's fancy home dashboard that he programmed using AI.

Links and Show Notes:
Credits

The Hosts

Chris Bailey (chrisbailey.com)

David Sparks (macsparky.com)

The Editor

Jim Metzendorf (twitter.com/jmetzendorf)

The Fixer

Kerry Provanzano (twitter.com/ciaokerryciao)

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Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? - The Blog of Tim Ferriss (tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-already-killed-nonf…)
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