r/vibecoding • u/summit_23 • 3d ago

Workflow/Prompt Superpowers: the single BEST skill I've ever found

/r/SoftwareGems/comments/1x7gjow/superpowers_a_free_skills_library_that_makes/
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u/dave8271 3d ago

Superpowers was great, in the days of Opus 4. It's an unnecessary token burner today.

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u/summit_23 3d ago

Agree on the token point but I still prefer using it bcoz yea a stronger model writes better code and but its still confidently wrong sometimes (many times), you just dont find out unless somethings checking

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u/dave8271 3d ago

Models can be confidently wrong with superpowers. The plugin doesn't add any capability in that respect, it's just a large set of guidelines as to a verbose workflow. In older models, that workflow fencing was necessary because the reasoning capability was poorer and they wouldn't operate to sensible, methodological workflows out of the box. The latest models do, and don't need that much instruction to produce the same quality of results. A simple, much shorter set of guidelines either in a project or a global `CLAUDE.md` does the job.

*such is my experience, but as with anything in the realm of AI, your mileage may vary.

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u/1337lupe 3d ago

what replaces it for sdd?

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u/satnightride 3d ago

Opus 5.5

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u/NuclearEgg69 3d ago

Disagree, at least in my usecase. I basically oneshot features now and sometimes multiple even. Before, I had to give gemini 3.5/3.6 like 8 to 10 prompts to do a kind of small feature, and there would still be hidden bugs later. I started using superpowers with Gemini 3.7 and 3.8, and it was still very useful with 3.7 compared to stock 3.7. Using it with 3.8 but I'm not sure if the model is the one who's good or superpowers, but I can feel its usefulness still. I write only one prompt or two prompts for a feature maybe three or four if the logic was fairly complex that I even would have missed it. And more than one time I would see that it covers edge cases in which I would have not thought about.

Not all people use opus 5.5.

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u/Stargazer1884 3d ago

Not anymore.

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u/mrdarknezz1 3d ago

Nah I prefer pstack now, reduces the slop

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u/summit_23 3d ago

Havent tried it but will check it out thanks!

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u/jayseattle 3d ago

"It's not uncommon for your agent to work autonomously for a couple hours at a time..."
Do people have unlimited spend? I'm interested in things like this or 'let it run overnight' but I'm on a plan.
Am I missing something?

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u/summit_23 3d ago

Nah youre not missing anything, most people doing long runs are on a flat sub instead of api billing including me. on a sub an overnight run spends your weekly allowance and nothing else

last time i added it up I put 810 sessions through max since april which at api prices wouldve been about 128k. so the cap is very real and i hit it plenty, theres just no invoice behind it

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u/NuclearEgg69 3d ago

People who do this fall into one of three categories:

  1. Those who review well-defined spec documents beforehand and batch run agents, especially when working with slower models.
  2. Those who have fairly, or in relation to just (agent) skills, super complex systems in which they can let agents run autonomously, without being managed so much, like a CEO running a company. There are frameworks for this and it requires planning beforehand for defining goals, etc.
  3. Those who use those long-running skills or frameworks and do not specify well-defined goals, have some money to spend, and are just churning ai slop all day.

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u/Nervous_Discount_237 2d ago

My company pays my tokens. And it’s mostly infinite tokens. If I burn it all I can just ask them for more

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u/kincaidDev 2d ago

If you like superpowers and want more autonomy and less interrogation you should try festival

https://github.com/Obedience-Corp/festival

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u/summit_23 1d ago

thanks, wil check it out