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. My biggest takeaways from interviewing Superpowers author ✨ Jesse Vincent 1. Recommended workflow: The full Superpowers workflow: Socratic brainstorming → design spikes → spec writing → spec review → implementation → code review—and why skipping any stage breaks the whole thing Why the brainstorming phase is designed to trick you, not the agent—and the consulting technique behind it 2. Why specs have replaced code as the only artifact humans should review—and how cross-reviewing specs between multiple Claude instances catches what a single pass misses 3. The orchestrator pattern: a coordinating agent that dispatches pinned tasks to sub-agents, each with an ephemeral spec-review agent that enforces quality before any code ships Why most implementing agents could run on Haiku instead of Opus—and what that means for cost and speed 4. Prompting techniques: The "fresh eyes" prompt that causes agents to step back and actually think critically—and why managing agents is eerily similar to managing humans 5. Working with the modes: Why saying "I love you" to Claude measurably improves output—and how persuasion principles from Cialdini's Influence transfer directly to frontier AI agents 6. His advice to developers: the spec is your leverage now—learn to write clearly, decompose problems well, and let the agents grind

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