{"slug": "what-a-year", "title": "What a year", "summary": "Superpowers 7.0 was released on the one-year anniversary of the project's initial public release, with a completely rebuilt brainstorming experience as its biggest change, according to creator Jesse Vincent. Vincent said Superpowers is the #1 third-party plugin for Claude Code with more than 1.1 million installs, is cloned 50 million times every 2 weeks from 1.95 million unique IPs, and is approaching 300,000 GitHub stars, which would make it the 12th most popular project of all time by stars. Vincent also said October 9, 2025 was the last time he wrote a line of code, a single line of shell script, and that Superpowers 6.4.2, released a couple weeks before 7.0, redid the planning process to work better with the latest models.", "body_md": "Today is the one year anniversary of [Superpowers](https://github.com/obra/superpowers)' initial public release. To celebrate, we're releasing [Superpowers 7.0](https://github.com/obra/superpowers/blob/main/RELEASE-NOTES.md).\n\nThe biggest change you'll see in this new version is a completely rebuilt brainstorming experience. Superpowers is now much, much better at helping you understand and explain what you're making. It's also much happier to get out of the way when you know exactly what you want and just want your coding agent to cook.\n\nI've been making software since elementary school. I think the first line of code I wrote was probably sometime in 1986.\n\nI have spent my career coding. And managing teams. And building product. And doing customer support. And doing everything from programming language design to physical assembly line optimization.\n\nBut it always came back to the code.\n\nFor 40 years, writing code was a huge part of my life.\n\nRight up until October 9th, 2025.\n\nOne year ago today.\n\nThat was the last time I wrote a line of code.\n\nIt was a single line of shell script.\n\nAnthropic was getting ready to roll out plugin support for Claude Code at 10am. It was about 9am and I'd found a bug in the support scripts for [Superpowers](https://github.com/obra/superpowers/). I hadn't been writing much of my own code for the previous few months, but I'd written a bit. And it seemed like it was going to be faster to edit the shell script by hand than to let Claude Sonnet take a stab at it.\n\nI was wrong. I screwed up that one line of code and then had to scramble to fix it, but I did manage to get Superpowers 1.0 out the door.\n\nI put up a blog post about \"[How I'm using coding agents in October 2025](https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/).\"\n\nOne year later, we're about to cross 300,000 stars on GitHub, making us the 12th most popular project of all time by stars. Superpowers is the #1 third-party plugin for Claude Code, with [more than 1.1M installs](https://primeradiant.com/claude-plugin-stats/). GitHub's stats tell us that Superpowers is cloned 50M times every 2 weeks from 1.95M unique IPs. (A bunch of those unique IPs are corporate firewalls.)\n\nI built Superpowers to let everyone make use of my experience managing teams of juniors (and then teams of agents).\n\nI hear from engineers all the time about how Superpowers has helped them ship more software, to ship more reliable software, and to build stuff that they wouldn't have taken on without it. I am so here for it, but the stories that make me happiest are the folks who say things like \"I'm not a programmer, but I just shipped my second iOS app with Superpowers\" or \"I'm not an engineer, but I just built this web app with Superpowers.\"\n\nIf you have an idea for a software product that should exist, you can make it.\n\nOver the past year, [we've](https://primeradiant.com) continued to refine and extend Superpowers. As the frontier models have evolved, we've been constantly tuning and tweaking to get better results for you. Superpowers 6.4.2, released a couple weeks ago, redid our planning process to work better with the latest models.\n\nThe best models and harnesses are dramatically more capable than they were when we started. But good process management and guidance still gets a better end result than just letting the model do its thing without supervision.\n\nThere is still a ton of work to do on agentic software engineering. You will absolutely get better outcomes if you understand the tools and systems that are being used. Building internet-scale systems still requires real expertise. If you're building safety-critical systems or building in a regulated industry, using agentic engineering doesn't release you from your obligations.\n\nBut most software you build for yourself and your family isn't safety-critical. Most systems you build for your friends or your team don't need to be web-scale.\n\nBuilding software used to require relatively arcane knowledge and years of practice.\n\nIt doesn't anymore.\n\nI'm so excited to see what you build with [Superpowers 7.0](https://github.com/obra/superpowers).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-a-year", "canonical_source": "https://blog.fsck.com/2026/10/09/what-a-year/", "published_at": "2026-10-09 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-10 00:57:55.018970+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Superpowers", "Jesse Vincent", "Claude Code", "Anthropic", "Claude Sonnet", "GitHub", "Prime Radiant"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-a-year", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-a-year.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-a-year.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-a-year.jsonld"}}