Skill Engineering and the Case Against One-Shot AI Design

Summary

Latent Space profiles "skill engineering" — the discipline of equipping AI agents with domain-specific vocabularies and operational frameworks rather than relying on vague natural-language instructions. Paul Bakaus, creator of the Impeccable design tool, argues explicitly against one-shot AI design: "It's never going to be a tool for one-shot design. That's not the intent." His model is human-agent collaboration where the agent handles the routine first 80% and the human retains the final 20% wh