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Article4 Sept 2026

Superpowers vs Plain Old Debugger in Explyt

Same bug, same model, same prompt. The Superpowers systematic-debugging skill burned 132k tokens and produced a patch I discarded; Explyt's Debug skill used 67k and shipped.

Explyt Team7 min read

What IDE-native AI feels like

What impressed me most is how well the agent understands the existing project. Its plans fit naturally into what is already built, even when I am working outside my usual tech stack.

Mariya Remenyuk
Mariya Remenyuk

Senior Analyst Developer · DXC Technology

LSP gives an agent coordinates; the full IDE gives it the project model. That native IDE context makes all the difference on real Java code.

Akiner Alkan
Akiner Alkan

Software Architect & AI Board Lead · Siemens

IDE-native stepping makes the difference on stateful Java applications.

Masaood
Masaood

Software Engineer

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