Mentions: 2026

April 24, 2026 PODCAST

MLOps Community Podcast — with Demetrios Brinkmann

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

“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.”

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April 23, 2026 PODCAST

Open Source Ready (Heavybit) — with Brian Douglas, John McBride

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

“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.”

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April 22, 2026 PODCAST

Rebuild.fm — with Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

Rebuild #424: Waterfall But Really Fast (obra)

“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.”

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April 2, 2026 MENTION

emschwartz.me

A Rave Review of Superpowers (for Claude Code)

“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.”

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March 23, 2026 MENTION

Adventures in Claude (Brad Feld)

Two Thousand Tokens of Discipline

“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.”

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March 23, 2026 MENTION

Builder.io Blog

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

“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. ”

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February 25, 2026 SOURCE

LinkedIn — Jesse Vincent

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

“I'm really bad at watching YouTube videos, but multiple people have told me that this intro to Superpowers is pretty good.”

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January 30, 2026 MENTION

DEV Community (dev.to)

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

“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. ”

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January 29, 2026 MENTION

LinkedIn — Ameya Kanitkar

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

“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.”

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January 15, 2026 MENTION

Anthropic (claude.com)

Anthropic Claude Plugins: Superpowers

“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.”

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