A developer rant about tools built for one kind of internet Recently, I’ve been losing my mind to hardcoded timeouts. Silent, arbitrary, unconfigurable time limits baked into tools by developers who apparently have never had to wait more than 200ms for anything in their lives. Let me tell you about my week. The skills Package and the 60-Second Clone Now that coding agents are everywhere, everyone is using skills. The popular way to add them is through packages developed by vercel-labs, and the go-to collection is awesome-copilot, a curated set of skills sitting at 30K+ stars at the time of writing. Except I can’t use it. The repository is too big, and the npx skills installer just chokes and dies. There’s an open issue about this since February #278 on the vercel-labs/skills repo and no one has responded. I’d be happy to send a PR and fix it myself. I just need someone to acknowledge it exists. Is there a configuration option? A --timeout flag? An environment variable? No, there is…
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