Superpowers 6

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Post by seahorseemoji » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 9:28 PM UTC

Re: Superpowers 6

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Post by dmix » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 10:18 PM UTC

Neither the article or the corporate blog post explains what Superpowers is. Seems to be an opinionated collection of skills for dev work

https://github.com/obra/superpowers

Re: Superpowers 6

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Post by overflowy » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

How does Superpowers compare with Matt Pocock's skills[1]? I only tried the latter, and to be honest, I had positive results without burning a quadrillion tokens.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QFHIoCo-Ko

Re: Superpowers 6

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Post by cyanydeez » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 11:29 PM UTC

i just dont find skills work flow all that generic enough.

Re: Superpowers 6

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Post by SoMomentary » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 2:11 AM UTC

I've loved Superpowers right along. I think a lot of what it does has been ingested into Claude Code proper now so I'll be interested to see if this release actually changes things up.

Re: Superpowers 6

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Post by artisin » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 2:31 AM UTC

I gave Superpowers 5.x a whirl for a week, and aside from consuming a stupid amount of tokens, it did materially worse across all my personal benchmarks and general day-to-day development compared to plain Codex/Claude. I'm convinced it's either some 4D ploy by the AI cartels to set tokens ablaze, or it only provides Superpowers to those without any power to begin with. Rating: 1/5 Pinocchios. Would not recommend.

Re: Superpowers 6

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Post by flashgordon » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 5:09 AM UTC

artisin wrote: post #6

I gave Superpowers 5.x a whirl for a week, and aside from consuming a stupid amount of tokens, it did materially worse across all my personal benchmarks and general day-to-day development compared to plain Codex/Claude. I'm convinced it's either some 4D ploy by the AI cartels to set tokens ablaze, or it only provides Superpowers to those without any power to begin with. Rating: 1/5 Pinocchios. Would not recommend.

This. I found superpowers a huge token guzzler. And more generic a skill is the worse it seemed to perform. I have found that skills are something you need to build yourself and for your needs and most importantly be willing to throw away. One team I know blindly checked this into every repo they had. They also had the highest cost per pr across all teams in our org (of about 60 eng teams). AI has already given people superpowers. How sad is it that they now need to be told how to just chat and prompt and use AI effectively as a pair programmer:(

Re: Superpowers 6

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Post by rahimnathwani » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC

I thought this would be about https://github.com/obra/superpowers

Re: Superpowers 6

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Post by probablycorey » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

rahimnathwani wrote: post #8

I thought this would be about https://github.com/obra/superpowers

This is about that.

Re: Superpowers 6

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Post by sedawkgrep » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

artisin wrote: post #6

I gave Superpowers 5.x a whirl for a week, and aside from consuming a stupid amount of tokens, it did materially worse across all my personal benchmarks and general day-to-day development compared to plain Codex/Claude. I'm convinced it's either some 4D ploy by the AI cartels to set tokens ablaze, or it only provides Superpowers to those without any power to begin with. Rating: 1/5 Pinocchios. Would not recommend.

I haven't used superpowers yet, but it seems a major focus of this release was to reduce clocktime as well as token spend.

From TFA (well, blog):

> The long and the short of it it is that across about 36 hours of work and what would have been $650 of unsubsidized token spend, our Anthropic eval benchmarks were looking like we'd reduced wall-clock runtime for Superpowers builds by 50% and token spend by 60%.