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Beyond Prompts: The Evolution of AI-Driven Engineering Workflows
This article is inspired by the work of Hoang Nguyen. The Illusion of Speed in the Prompt Era For the past two years, the industry has been obsessed with the "Prompt." We've been told that...
How to Start a Feature With Superpowers: A Step-by-Step Guide
You've installed Superpowers. Now what? The good news: you don't need to learn any special commands or memorize a workflow. You just describe what you want to build β and Superpowers quietly takes...
Superpowers: The Agentic Skills Framework That Makes Claude Code Actually Think Before Coding
The Problem With Every AI Coding Agent Out of the Box You open Claude Code. You type "build me a user authentication system." And within seconds it's already writing UserController.cs β no questio...
Tokenmaxxing: Is Burning More AI Tokens Actually a Sign of Productivity?
Jensen Huang says he'd be "very concerned" if an engineer earning $500,000 a year spent less than $250,000 on AI tokens. Andrej Karpathy says "the name of the game is tokens." Meta's CTO calls hea...
Smart Context System: Give Your AI a Long-Term Memory for Real Projects
The Problem: Your AI Has Amnesia Imagine you just joined a new project. You open Cursor, ask it why a certain tax calculation works the way it does β and it has no idea. It sees the code, but it...
Accepted Diffs, Tab Completions, Agent Lines of Code β 3 Metrics That Show How Well You Use AI Coding Tools
Many developers use Cursor or GitHub Copilot every day but never really know if they're using it effectively. The feeling of "AI is helpful" isn't enough β you need concrete numbers. Cursor's Usa...