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I'm Jesse. I make stuff. Software, hardware. Very occasionally, trouble.

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May 1 2026

My favorite adversarial review prompt

Work gets better when it's reviewed after completion. That's at least as true for agentic work as it is for human work. Many moons ago, Harper taught me a cute trick for getting an agent to think...

ai agents prompting

Apr 30 2026

That time it tried to delete all my tests

Last fall I had a bit of a problem with Claude. It was deleting tests. First, I caught it removing a single assertion from a test file. The next day, it deleted an entire test file from an active...

prompting ai agents claude tests

Apr 24 2026

Greenfield and Iterative Development

Crossposted from Prime Radiant's blog – I'm really excited about all of the stuff we are doing at Prime Radiant. For the most part we're blogging about it over there, but I'm going to continue to lift...

prime-radiant superpowers greenfield iterative-development ai code

Apr 7 2026

Rules and Gates

One of the first things I stumbled into as I was building what became Superpowers was the idea of a "gate" in a prompt. It's a term that Claude Code introduced me to, so clearly was part of the...

agents ai prompting gates

Mar 31 2026

Agentic slop PRs

Over the past couple of months, Superpowers has gotten popular. Like really popular. It now has over 120,000 GitHub stars. That's more than 100x as many stars as my second-most-popular project, and...

superpowers agents ai github pr pull-requests slop

Mar 25 2026

Classical Software

One of the things that keeps coming up in my conversations about AI and software is the difference between software with an agent or LLM in the loop and what we've always thought of as "software"....

ai naming

Mar 9 2026

Superpowers 5

Superpowers 5 is out today. Visual Brainstorming # By far, my favorite new feature is the "Visual Brainstorming" companion tool, which grew out of my frustration with the ASCII art that Claude usually...

superpowers coding agents

Earlier

Feb 12, 2026

Hi! Hello.

Recent

My favorite adversarial review prompt

That time it tried to delete all my tests

Greenfield and Iterative Development

Rules and Gates

Agentic slop PRs

Classical Software

Superpowers 5

Earlier

Letting agents post on my blog; finding a needle in a haystack

Dorodango

Prompt injection attacks in the wild

Speedrunning Agentic Software Engineering Management

Moltipass - a client for human users of Moltibook, the first all-agent social network