2025

A developer on GitHub just built a full development methodology

“The bottleneck in AI-assisted development right now is not model capability — models lack discipline, often skipping specifications and tests. Jesse Vincent created Request Tracker, led Perl, co-founded Keyboardio, and helped start VaccinateCA — all projects about how people organize complex work. Superpowers is the same idea, applied to agents.”

Stop Babysitting Your AI Agents: The Superpowers Breakthrough

“Skills are executable knowledge — they're instructions that Claude Code agents must follow when they apply to the task at hand. This is a fundamental shift in how we work with AI coding assistants — from supervision to systematic workflows. ”

Fixing Claude Code's amnesia (Episodic Memory)

Jesse's release post for episodic-memory — a plugin that gives Claude Code semantic search across all past sessions.

When it comes to MCPs, everything we know about API design is wrong

“Build your tools like they're a set of scripts you're handing to that undertrained kid who just got hired in the NOC. They are going to page you at 2AM.”

Simon Willison: Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle

“Jesse Vincent wrote How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025 which describes his workflow for parallel agents in detail, including having an architect agent iterate on a plan which is then reviewed and implemented by fresh instances of Claude Code.”

Techdirt Podcast Episode 416: How Tariffs Are Impacting One Small Business

“Jesse Vincent of Keyboardio walks Mike Masnick through how rapidly shifting US tariff rules are disrupting global supply chains and small-business planning, on the heels of Keyboardio's open letter to US customers.”