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Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

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Re: Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

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Post by titanomachy »

saaaaaam wrote: post #96
yoyohello13 wrote: post #94

The post reads like the someone throwing bones and reading their fortune. That part where Claude did its own journaling was so cringe it was hilarious. The tone of the journal entry was exactly like the blog author, which suggests to me Claude is reflecting back what the author wants to hear. I feel like Jesse is consumed in a tornado of llm sycophancy.

Claude has never once said “oh shit” or “holy crap” to me. I must be doing something horribly wrong.

You need to read more books on influencing people. /s

Re: Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

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Post by dang »

apwell23 wrote: post #40

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That's far from true. Also, please don't cross into personal attack on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45549522.)

Edit: your account has unfortunately been doing this repeatedly (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45551198), and you've been breaking the site guidelines in other ways as well (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45527456). We ban accounts that do this, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, that would be good.

Re: Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

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Post by Balinares »

rkomorn wrote: post #103
Retric wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who hurt you? Sorry couldn’t resist. Agile’s point was getting feedback during the process rather than after something is complete enough to be shipped thus minimizing risk and avoiding wasted effort. Instead people are splitting up major projects into tiny shippable features and calling that agile while missing the point.

I've never seen a working scrum/agile/sprint/whatever product/project management system and I'm convinced it's because I've just never seen an actual implementation of one. "Splitting up major projects into tiny shippable features and calling that agile" feels like a much more accurate description of what I've experienced. I wish I'd gotten to see the real thing(s) so I could at least have an informed opinion.

I've seen the real thing and it's pretty much splitting major projects into tiny shippable bits. Picking which bits and making it so they steadily add up to the desired outcomes is the hard part.

Re: Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

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Post by dingdingdang »

simonw wrote: post #112
jstummbillig wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering the last 2 years, has it become harder or easier?

Definitely harder. A year ago I was using GitHub Copilot autocomplete in VS Code and occasionally asking ChatGPT or Claude to help write me a short function or two. Today I have Claude Code and Codex CLI and Codex Web running, often in parallel, hunting down and resolving bugs and proposing system designs and collaborating with me on detailed specs and then turning those specs into working code with passing tests. Th…

Also better and faster though!! It's close to a Daft Punk type situation.

Re: Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

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Post by danielbln »

kasey_junk wrote: post #105
tcdent wrote: post #32

This style of prompting, where you set up a dire scenario in order to try to evoke some "emotional" response from the agent, is already dated. At some point, putting words like IMPORTANT in all uppercase had some measurable impact, but at the present time, models just follow instructions. Save yourself the experience of having to write and maintain prompts like this.

What’s irritating is that the llms haven’t learned this as bout themselves yet. If you ask an llm to improve its instructions those sort of improvements are what it will suggest. It is the thing I find most irritating about working with llms and agents. They seem forever a generation behind in capabilities that are self referential.

LLMs will also happily put time estimates on work packages that are based on ore-LLM turn around times.

"Phase 2 will take about one week"

No, Claude, it won't, because you you and I will bang this thing out in a few hours.

Re: Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

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Post by wbradley »

simonw wrote: post #118
3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #73

I am only on the first page and saw this blurb and was immediately annoyed. @/Users/jesse/.claude/plugins/cache/Superpowers/... The XDG spec has been out for decades now. Why are new applications still polluting my HOME? Also seems weird that real data would be put under a cache/ location, but whatever.

It's in the cache location because it's a copy of a plugin that was installed from a GitHub repository, so that's not the original point of truth for that file.

I think the point is that ~/.claude should be dispersed among ~/.config/claude, ~/.local/state/claude, etc

I agree with this, it’s frustrating that in 2025 apps are still polluting my home dir.

Re: Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

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Post by themafia »

sunir wrote: post #4
jvanderbot wrote: post #3

This is so interesting but it reads like satire. I'm sure folks who love persuading and teaching and marshalling groups are going to do very well in SWEng. According to this, we'll all be reading the feelings journals of our LLM children and scolding them for cheating on our carefully crafted exams instead of, you know, making things. We'll read psychology books, apparently. I like reading and tinkering directly. If…

We certainly will; they can’t replace humans in most language tasks without having a human like emotional model. I have a whole therapy set of agents to debug neurotic long lived agents with memory.

I like writing software.

I hate managing people.

What are we doing?

Re: Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

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Post by Balinares »

simonw wrote: post #66
apwell23 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well explain why OPost is "wild" and what makes you recommend it "strongly" . what have u built with to come to those conclusions ? is this too much to ask.

I recommend it strongly because the "skills" mechanism it describes is a new and very promising technique, and this is the best article I've seen that explains that. It's "wild" because, among many other experiments, Jesse has experimented with giving Claude a "feelings journal" and prompting it using Graphviz DOT diagrams. For my previous writing and work on this you can consult my blog - here's the AI-assisted prog…

I'll admit I struggle to isolate what's fundamentally different between these skill configurations and the usual CLAUDE/AGENTS/etc.md. Clearly there's something; I'm just curious what's the mechanism at play, precisely.

EDIT: Simon actually already answered that point here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45550115

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