Skill-Maintenance
- A Pile Doesn't Just Sit There. It Gets Worse.
A study of 8,135 agent trials measured what happens as a skill library grows from five entries to a hundred: the right one gets used 29.6% of the time, then 3.3%.
- Cognitive Drift: The System Improved — Did You? The Retention Curve of AI-Assisted Coding
Sustained AI dependence erodes the skills the tool augments — invisibly, because the tool compensates for the decline it causes. The retention curve, and the fix.