So I tried Matt's skills...

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Intro

There is one particular GitHub repo that I've been eyeing for a long time and just never took the time to dive into. It's by a person that I've interacted with a bunch in the past who if you've been around for a while I am sure you're familiar with. I've often called myself the second best TypeScript YouTuber and the reason is because of this individual, the number one Matt HCO. He published a set of AI skills for real engineers that I honestly kind of dismissed initially, but over time he has continued to refine them and be realistic with them. And what he's created is a set of small and simple markdown files that have racked up over 200,000 stars on GitHub, making it one of the 10 most starred projects on all of GitHub. Truly insane. All for markdown files. I've wanted to see what the hype was about for a while here, and I've seen people saying really good things about them, especially the grill me skill. And this has also been a video I've planned for a while to the point where my whole Twitch chat is freaking out. Thank you. I stayed up till 3:00 a.m. for this. Long overdue. Finally, three streams ago. Since this was put in Notion, Matt's updated the skills multiple times. Yeah, you guys have wanted to get my honest thoughts on these skills for a while. In order to do that, I had to use them. So, I did. Over the last week, I installed a bunch of the skills from Matt Poco's skills repo, which is full of gems that are worth talking about, from his process to the actual skills themselves. If I only covered Matt's skills, though, I'd be doing this ecosystem a disservice. The vast majority of these skill repos are absolute slop and should be ignored. But there is one other I'm excited about. PA stack created by Lauren, otherwise known as Potato, one of my old favorite React core team members, who is now at Cursor, and built a wild set of skills that are really fun and surprisingly powerful. I have went through and audited the majority of the skills in both of these suites, pulled in my favorites, and I've been using them actively. I cannot wait to show you everything I've learned after a real quick break for today's sponsor.

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