alt Hacker NewsI've used both From my experience, gsd is a highly overengineered piece of software that unfortunately does not get shit done, burns limits and takes ages while doing so. Quick mode does not really help because it kills the point of gsd, you can't build full software on ad-hocs. I've used plain markdown planning before, but it was limiting and not very stable, superpowers looks like a good middleground
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Superpowers looks more like PM-in-a-box with AI paint. If you want speed, thin scripts plus sane CLI tools and Git hooks will get you further in an afternoon than these 'meta' systems, because they still depend on manual curation for anything nontrivial and mostly burn limits while shuffling context around.
My instinct is to blame these agent frameworks as well but at some point we have to start blaming Claude or Claude Code for engaging in these endless planning loops which burn tokens with no regard. The future of these coding models will eventually need to start factoring in how to use and engage with these skills more competently (assuming that's possible and they aren't always just aimless yesmen).
> gsd is a highly overengineered piece of software that unfortunately does not get shit done, burns limits and takes ages while doing so
That was my impression of superpowers as well. Maybe not highly overengineered but definitely somewhat. I ended up stripping it back to get something useful. Kept maybe 30%.
There's a kernel of a good idea in there but I feel it's something that we're all gradually aligning on independently, these shared systems are just fancy versions of a "standard agentic workflow".