I Read Both Superpowers and grill-me Source Codes
A deep source code comparison of two AI coding tools reveals why a 254k-star giant lost to a one-line skill in my daily workflow.
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A 254k-star behemoth with 172 files, versus a skill whose entire body text is just one line—yet both are solving the exact same problem. I refused to believe it, so I went through both repositories line by line. After finishing, I replaced the default tool in my brainstorming phase.
Over the past two days, I did something a bit obsessive: I cloned both the obra/superpowers and mattpocock/skills repositories and read their source code side by side.
The trigger was the grill-me skill. It had quietly replaced Superpowers in my brainstorming phase. I wanted to understand how something that looks so thin could pull it off.
After reading everything, I realized that a lot of what’s circulating online about these two tools is wrong—including star counts, what grill-me actually looks like, and even its installation command. This article lays out the first-hand information I gathered directly from the source.
