Why AI Feels Random (And How Skills Help)

Are AI skills just better prompts? This video breaks down how an AI Skill turns a repeated job—like turning a meeting transcript into an action brief—into a reusable workflow you can inspect and improve. Skills do not make AI magically reliable or give it automatic access to your files. They document the steps, rules and checks around one job; you still review the output. In this video: • Why repeated prompts drift over time • What an AI Skill actually packages • How Skills, RAG and MCP differ • A simple meeting-action-brief example • When a repeated task is worth turning into a Skill • Why “collect every Skill” is a bad idea, and how to test one more safely The meeting workflow shown is illustrative, using invented example material. Different AI products support reusable workflows differently, with different tools and permissions. Chapters: 0:00 Are AI Skills Just Better Prompts? 0:39 What an AI Skill Packages 1:52 Skills vs RAG vs MCP 2:32 Example: A Meeting Action-Brief Skill 3:29 Repeated Prompt vs Reusable Job 4:08 The “Collect Every Skill” Trap 5:10 When Should You Create a Skill? Useful references: OpenAI Academy — Using skills: https://openai.com/academy/skills/ Anthropic — Extend Claude with skills: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/cl... Work with me / contact: brendontan.media@gmail.com Follow: TikTok:   / brendon.tan0   YouTube Shorts:    / @brendontan   #aiskills #aiagents #chatgpt