I see the same thing and have effectively the same philosophy. If I'm using something like figma or glean or playwright/chrome dev tools, plugin/skill/mcp - likely very useful.
But so many of the weird collections of skills that people on YouTube get viral followings for - I just don't get it.
People excitedly ask me what skills I use and I feel bad just saying only things we've directly authored for some express purpose. None of the "hot" ones.
I've written a large handful of skills, but they aren't like vim plugins. I don't just leave them "on".
This has been my experience at least- curious if I'm just behind the times.
I also effectively didn't leave the IDE+ChatGPT copy/paste workflow until the first release of Claude code. So maybe I'm slow to adopt.
But so many of the weird collections of skills that people on YouTube get viral followings for - I just don't get it.
People excitedly ask me what skills I use and I feel bad just saying only things we've directly authored for some express purpose. None of the "hot" ones.
I've written a large handful of skills, but they aren't like vim plugins. I don't just leave them "on".
This has been my experience at least- curious if I'm just behind the times.
I also effectively didn't leave the IDE+ChatGPT copy/paste workflow until the first release of Claude code. So maybe I'm slow to adopt.