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For me personally, it was a game changer when I first began using it and now it simply is as much a part of my workflow as any say, using git (yeah it has its warts but way way more value).
Also, the latest (version 6) is noticebly token efficient as claimed.
Did the people who found it underwhelming not try starting with the brainstorming skill first?
All these prompt and skill based git repos are sus... nothing is benchmarked -its all so subjective and unproven and breaks with model updates -everyone and his uncle has a 'secret sauce skill' -that just proves to me the subjectivity of this endeavor.
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 had similar prompts back when the models were terrible at instruction-following, so it was actually useful to fill up their context with a mass of instructions so they'd be less likely to forget rules.
Now I've got a few small slash commands or pasted prompts that work perfectly every time as the models follow them exactly.
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
I'm honestly surprised at all the people here commenting that superpowers didn't work out for them. For me personally, it was a game changer when I first began using it and now it simply is as much a part of my workflow as any say, using git (yeah it has its warts but way way more value). Also, the latest (version 6) is noticebly token efficient as claimed. Did the people who found it underwhelming not try starting w…
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
I heckin love his /grill-me skill. Terse, to the point, and delivers outsized results. Gonna take a moment to share my own generic "retro" prompt, which has found many areas of improvement IME. > Let's conclude with a retro. Did you run into any issues during this session that you think could be improved? Any failed tool calls, confusing docs/prompts, or tricky wording that took you effort to figure out, etc? Any fin…
I've just started using Claude Code this month after months of Claude in VSCode + GitHub Copilot (and a bit of dabbling with AWS Kiro), and I'm actually impressed by how seemingly polished Claude Code is.
I think Copilot in VSCode broke far more in my months of (ab)using it.