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JohnCClarketoday at 9:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

Online reviews indicate that Superpowers is best for people who are not already experienced SW development managers.

Is that true? What is your experience of it?

For me, I am a solid KISS believer, so I have not yet found a better framework than just plain old Claude Code. But happy to move to a better workflow, if it's real.


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tao_oattoday at 10:04 AM

Overall I think it's useful.

Superpowers has several skills. Its core workflow is:

- Brainstorm with you to design a spec

- Use subagents to review its own spec, then get your approval

- Based on the spec, write a plan, use subagents to review before final approval

- Use subagents to implement (using TDD)

I think that the brainstorming skill [1] is great. It helps flesh out a rough early idea. I also like that it uses subagents to adversarially review its own spec/plan; that has caught several things I would've missed. I do not like the separation of spec/plan; IMO the models are good enough to get straight to coding once the spec is written. The plan often ends up being code blocks in a Markdown doc.

[1]: https://github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/main/skills/brainst...

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avib99today at 10:27 AM

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