IBM AI Engineer just listed the 7 skills you need to build AI agents in 2026.
system design. tool contracts. RAG. reliability. security. evals. product thinking.
all 7 are real. all 7 take months to learn properly.
but here's the shortcut nobody tells you: most of these are already encoded in Claude Code skills you can install in 30 seconds.
> superpowers does TDD + reliability for you
> web-design-guidelines does eval + product thinking for you
> valyu does retrieval engineering for you
> simplify does code reliability for you
the IBM video is what to learn if you want to build agents from scratch.
my article is what to install if you want to ship agents tomorrow.
both incredibly useful for different goals.
watch the video.
read the article.
change how you work.
If you want to become good at system design (in 2 weeks), then learn these 15 case studies:
1 How Apache Kafka Works
↳ https://t.co/8rOy9KgCMo
2 How Google Search Works
↳ https://t.co/jwOaC4bhnv
3 How YouTube Works
↳ https://t.co/kHk3g6jz6t
4 How Google Docs Works
↳ https://t.co/W57IkAjXpT
5 How WhatsApp Works
↳ https://t.co/VScq8QwHMr
6 How Airbnb Works
↳ https://t.co/Bi5SAjfv5S
7 How Spotify Works
↳ https://t.co/BxrH3oHIFS
8 How Slack Works
↳ https://t.co/eIo29uOQOJ
9 How Reddit Works
↳ https://t.co/o6Pw2hhj3T
10 How Bluesky Works
↳ https://t.co/2rLYlRlky0
11 How Twitter Works
↳ https://t.co/pF2RYmPaIG
12 How Uber Computes ETA
↳ https://t.co/hw1hYJqQmj
13 How Bitly Shortener Works
↳ https://t.co/tGndgdhH0V
14 How Stock Exchange Works
↳ https://t.co/iFNSX9TM9O
15 How Payment System Works
↳ https://t.co/ARiLxGR43G
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