Massively Parallel Procrastination

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A running archive of podcasts, press, talks, and other places my work has shown up. Each item links to the original; archived copies live here too in case the source disappears. Browse the full archive by year in the sidebar.

Highlights

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

    blog.fsck.com
    Skills are the interesting part. And you're going to be hearing a lot more about them from....just about everybody in the very near future.

    The October 2025 launch of Superpowers — Jesse's open-source agentic development methodology, packaged as a plugin for the world's most widely used coding agents.

2026

  • MLOps Community #373: The Creator of Superpowers — Why Real Agentic Engineering Beats Vibe Coding

    MLOps Community Podcast · with Demetrios Brinkmann
    Jesse Vincent is the Founder & CEO of Prime Radiant and creator of Superpowers — the most-used Claude Code plugin in the world. He built the first agentic software development methodology from scratch while managing MIT interns in the early 2000s, and hasn't written a line of code manually since October.

    Jesse walks through Superpowers, why most developers approach agentic coding wrong, and what's coming next at Prime Radiant including Green Field for legacy reverse-engineering.

  • Open Source Ready Ep. 36: Managing AI Coding Agents with Jesse Vincent

    Open Source Ready (Heavybit) · with Brian Douglas, John McBride
    Nobody had done actual prompt engineering. I took it from a thing that ran in 15 seconds and generated a very reasonable looking to-do app that wouldn't save a to-do if you hit reload to something that was a five phase project that took 25 minutes to execute, did full red green TDD, and cost about $20 in tokens. That was sort of the basis of actually engineering how to get Claude to reliably build the thing you want it to build.

    Jesse walks through Superpowers and how it turns AI coding tools into structured, reliable development systems, covering agent orchestration and prompt engineering.

  • Rebuild #424: Waterfall But Really Fast (obra)

    Rebuild.fm · with Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
    The things that used to be impossible are easy. Things that, when you're doing them by hand, are really easy are nearly impossible. Every month it's different — but all of the tools are getting better, and you still need to break down problems. It's basically waterfall, but really fast.

    Jesse Vincent (obra) returns to Rebuild.fm to talk with Tatsuhiko Miyagawa about Superpowers, AI, Skills, MCP, Claude Code, Codex and the new shape of agentic software development.

  • A Rave Review of Superpowers (for Claude Code)

    emschwartz.me · by Evan Schwartz
    I have no connection to the authors of the Superpowers plugin for Claude Code, but I have been raving about it to everyone I talk to. Using Claude Code with Superpowers is so much more productive and the features it builds are so much more correct than with stock Claude Code. I cannot recommend it enough.

    Engineer Evan Schwartz publishes an enthusiastic review of Superpowers and how its brainstorm/plan/implement loop transformed his Claude Code workflow. Discussed on HN (50 points, 25 comments).

  • Two Thousand Tokens of Discipline

    Adventures in Claude (Brad Feld) · by Brad Feld
    The thread is toolmaking. Jesse builds things that give people structure for doing hard things — tracking bugs, managing email, typing comfortably, finding vaccines. Superpowers is a plugin that doesn't give Claude new capabilities. It gives Claude discipline.

    Brad Feld's through-line piece on Jesse Vincent. Feld traces the toolmaking arc — Request Tracker, K-9 Mail, Keyboardio, VaccinateCA, Prime Radiant, Superpowers — and frames Superpowers as a plugin that doesn't give Claude new capabilities; it gives Claude discipline.

  • The Superpowers Plugin for Claude Code: The Structured Workflow That Actually Works

    Builder.io Blog · by Matt Abrams
    Undisciplined AI coding is slow. That's the problem. The spec is the source of truth for all decisions, and cheaper to make on paper than to undo in code.

    Long-form (~3,500 word) Builder.io engineering-blog walkthrough of Jesse Vincent's Superpowers as a discipline framework for Claude Code, anchored in a concrete case study (the "Ding" project) — including spec-phase decisions like per-label-set cooldowns and hot-reload semantics — that shows where Superpowers' brainstorm/plan/review gates actually pay off versus undisciplined agent coding.

  • Jesse Vincent on LinkedIn: This Just Fixed 90% of AI Coding Errors

    LinkedIn — Jesse Vincent · by Jesse Vincent
    I'm really bad at watching YouTube videos, but multiple people have told me that this intro to Superpowers is pretty good.

    Jesse's own LinkedIn post — sharing a third-party YouTube introduction to Superpowers under the headline 'This Just Fixed 90% of AI Coding Errors.' 65 reactions, 11 comments.

  • Superpowers: The Technology to 'Persuade' AI Agents — Why Psychological Principles Change Code Quality

    DEV Community (dev.to) · by tumf
    Claude went hard. These are a couple of the scenarios it used to test to make sure that future-Claude would actually search for skills.

    Original-angle dev.to analysis (~2,000 words) framing Jesse Vincent's Superpowers as an applied use of Cialdini's persuasion principles inside the agent prompt — and surfacing the meta-pattern that Superpowers uses TDD to develop its own skills, with "pressure scenarios" testing whether future-Claude will skip best practices under time pressure.

  • Jesse Vincent hasn't written a line of code since October

    LinkedIn — Ameya Kanitkar · by Ameya Kanitkar
    Jesse Vincent hasn't written a line of code since October. His Claude Code plugin Superpowers hit 140,000 developers in months, and his entire workflow runs on specs, sub-agents, and review loops. The spec is your leverage now — learn to write clearly, decompose problems well, and let the agents grind.

    Ameya Kanitkar's LinkedIn post characterizing Jesse's spec-and-orchestrator workflow with Superpowers — brainstorming, design spikes, spec writing, spec review, implementation, code review — and the line that 'the spec is your leverage now.' 50 reactions, 7 comments.

  • Anthropic Claude Plugins: Superpowers

    Anthropic (claude.com)
    Superpowers is a comprehensive skills framework that teaches Claude structured software development methodologies. It provides composable skills for test-driven development (TDD), systematic debugging, brainstorming, subagent-driven development with built-in code review, and the ability to author new skills.

    Anthropic's official Claude plugins marketplace listing for Superpowers, accepted on 2026-01-15.