Superpowers never really held up in my own testing vs /plan - not just more expensive but markedly worse code organisation, because the plan itself leads to higher cognitive burden for the models - and today it's even worse, because /plan doesn't hold up versus coming up with a few high level slices and having cc work on one per session, for much the same reason.
5.5 is much closer to Fable so i don't even need it. I am pretty sure it's got Fable's DNA in it.
I really need to find a role where I can do more DX...
Yeah I always balked at the amount bloat in that repo, and I just prefer a more lightweight setup and plannotator’s UI which I can use to interactively review stuff. It solves this one problem better, where superpowers tries to do way too much, poorly.
I dived into one or two of the skills there and some of it feels very cargo-culty. In a similar vein to the article, the models have improved markedly now and I’m not convinced that “You are an experienced senior software engineer and an expert reviewer, here are five pages of instructions on how to do a review” style prompts are massively useful any more.
I get great review results (as good or better than colleagues using superpowers or even adversarial review skills) just by asking Claude to review a PR and spit out results in order of severity.
Superpowers never really held up in my own testing vs /plan - not just more expensive but markedly worse code organisation, because the plan itself leads to higher cognitive burden for the models - and today it's even worse, because /plan doesn't hold up versus coming up with a few high level slices and having cc work on one per session, for much the same reason.
5.5 is much closer to Fable so i don't even need it. I am pretty sure it's got Fable's DNA in it.
I really need to find a role where I can do more DX...
Yeah I always balked at the amount bloat in that repo, and I just prefer a more lightweight setup and plannotator’s UI which I can use to interactively review stuff. It solves this one problem better, where superpowers tries to do way too much, poorly.
https://plannotator.ai/
I dived into one or two of the skills there and some of it feels very cargo-culty. In a similar vein to the article, the models have improved markedly now and I’m not convinced that “You are an experienced senior software engineer and an expert reviewer, here are five pages of instructions on how to do a review” style prompts are massively useful any more.
I get great review results (as good or better than colleagues using superpowers or even adversarial review skills) just by asking Claude to review a PR and spit out results in order of severity.