I've only used Claude's planning mode when I just started using Claude Code, so it may be me using it wrong at the time, but the superpowers are way more helpful for picking up on you wanting to build/modify something and helping you brainstorm interactively to a solid spec, suggesting multiple options when applicable. This results in a design and implementation doc and then it can coordinate subagents to implement the different features, followed by spec review and code review. Really impressed with it, I use it for anything non-trivial.
I asked because I started using GSD which I liked at first, but have since dropped. I started using planning instead and find it probably does a better job and is waaay faster. After a while of using GSD I started to realize the control I initially felt over the model with all these markdown documents (current state, phases, phases belonging to larger milestones) etc. were an illusion.
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I've only used Claude's planning mode when I just started using Claude Code, so it may be me using it wrong at the time, but the superpowers are way more helpful for picking up on you wanting to build/modify something and helping you brainstorm interactively to a solid spec, suggesting multiple options when applicable. This results in a design and implementation doc and then it can coordinate subagents to implement the different features, followed by spec review and code review. Really impressed with it, I use it for anything non-trivial.
I asked because I started using GSD which I liked at first, but have since dropped. I started using planning instead and find it probably does a better job and is waaay faster. After a while of using GSD I started to realize the control I initially felt over the model with all these markdown documents (current state, phases, phases belonging to larger milestones) etc. were an illusion.