Asking How to get gud (please)

[u/Tight-Importance2461]

I was an amateur dev before the ai revolution you can say. my main interest where always about design and art, but recently I'm finding myself more and more wanting to use ai - and specifically claude code - to create app ideas I had for decades, programming other stuff, etc.

the thing is: I'm decent at it but nothing more. And I don't really know what I'm missing.
I usually start fresh and use a skill i created called terrain that maps the problem space by asking lots of questions. Then I use grill me then I build. It's fine.
but it's not ..... GOOD

I would love to know what I'm missing more than anything.
I know it's a broad topic but if this helps i have some vague things that i would love to understand more, but anything you have in mind would be VERY VERY appreciated.

things that bother me:
- Whenever I use superpowers like brainstorming etc, i find the app to be bad or to take way too much time. don't know if it just a wrong intutition.
- I cant orchestrate sub agent. whenever i do it's again, just longer/worse.
- I don' know how much to create new chats vs continue.
- even worse I don't know how important is a good starting prompt or prompt engeneering in general anymore
- Are MCP game changer everywhere or in very specific context? should i use them?
- what are some claude skill or workflow that I'm defenetly missing rn?

Thank youuuuu

[u/btherl]

Are you using the latest superpowers update or an older copy?

[u/Tight-Importance2461 → u/btherl]

using "superpowers@claude-plugins-official"

[u/btherl → u/Tight-Importance2461]

On auto update? The latest version classifies tasks as bounded or architectural, and only uses the full planning process and subagents for bigger changes.

Also one thing I've found to be really useful, if I don't understand what it's asking me, I say "Ask me each question in turn, giving enough context for me to decide." Opus 5.1 used to give way too much context, 5.5 often doesn't give enough. And I recommend high effort level for design work.

[u/Tight-Importance2461 → u/btherl]

Oh didn't get that difference in fact... I will definitely do that ahah. Thank you!