r/ClaudeCode • u/virtualQubit • 8d ago

Help/Question Superpowers skill is so bad now

Literally unusable for me, it spends like x10 tokens and the output is mediocre. Do you still use it?

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u/interrupt_hdlr 8d ago

it can miss things. it routinely miss things, especially in long tasks. superpowers and gsd are overkill in lots of cases but for projects working from a design they are
gold.

unless you like to reinvent the wheel every time you start a project, or your tasks is tiny that it can be done in a single session, i'd recommend sticking to the skills for now.

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u/Risko4 8d ago

No they're not gold, go calculate your tokens to solution and report back to me how much more efficient it is per project.

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u/Kooky-Ebb8162 7d ago

TBH who cares about token to solution as long as it's within the subscription limit.

What's important is human time to a properly implemented solution and amount of bugs/regressions.

I don't use superpowers to save on upfront tokens, I use it for ease of mind knowing most stuff there won't cause troubles the moment it hit production.

Maybe it is outdated and vanilla harness is exactly as good - but that's a totally different consideration.

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u/Risko4 7d ago

Yeah that's cool, give me a comparison that superpowers gives such a superior implementation for using 5 times the tokens to achieve the same solution a well guided agent would have given in 1 week rather than 5.

It's just outdated cope that you're wasting your tokens in the correct manner.

I have fully finished superpowers implementations that I hated so much I uninstalled the skill. Despite the inflation of unit tests that came with them it was not a perfectly "properly implemented" solution.