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Prompts aren’t enough: Why two AI giants are evolving their approach

Stop telling AI what to do. Show it instead.

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This summer, OpenAI and Anthropic both announced features that let their AI systems learn a task by watching someone do it once, instead of being told how in a prompt. In June, OpenAI launched Record & Replay, a feature that lets ChatGPT and Codex users demonstrate a workflow and turn it into a reusable skill. Weeks later, Anthropic unveiled Record a Skill inside Claude Cowork: Record your screen doing a task, narrate your reasoning, and Claude turns it into a skill it can run again. Two competitors, converging on the same solution within weeks of each other. To me, that’s an admission that prompting alone was never going to get AI where it needs to go.

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