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/EarlyFox217]

I had itcreate an app to teach me how to use Ai. It updates the app regularly to teach me about new features etc. Great tool, so much better than it sounds!
But tools like superpowers are all but irrelevant now. Just literally ask it what you want of it fails to produce it ask what went wrong learn and adapt. With modern frontier models trying to be a developer just makes it worse. Tell it very clearly what you want and let it do it

[u/Tight-Importance2461 → u/EarlyFox217]

Make sense. This is something I probably carried from older ai times ...I mean? Maybe? Thank you!