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. ”

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.