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.”

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.