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.”

Jesse walks through Superpowers and how it turns AI coding tools into structured, reliable development systems, covering agent orchestration and prompt engineering.