Rafael Mendiola

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Rafael Mendiola

Rafael Mendiola

@GroundControl

I like making products with #reactnative. Talk to me about making products efficiently, AI coding, design, making cool shit. @ raf . dev

Boston Katılım Nisan 2008
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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
@jamonholmgren MicroProse??? That's awesome. Blast from the past. That's such a great brand as a publisher for this game.
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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
> At Factory, all of our "backend engineers" ship frontend code. Any engineer should be able to prompt agents to tweak features "out of the box" with built-in guardrails. Ah ok I see the fundamental problem. Frontend is a way harder/different kind of problem than backend.
Alvin Sng@alvinsng

24 hours ago, I posted this article about @FactoryAI's take on React's useEffect which has surpassed 1.7M views and is still growing. This caught the attention of numerous execs, startup founders, and even the React core team. It has sparked a conversation about a paradigm shift in how we design software for the agentic era. Traditionally, software frameworks were designed for humans who spent time mastering fundamentals before writing their first line of code. Today, that is no longer the case. At Factory, all of our "backend engineers" ship frontend code. Any engineer should be able to prompt agents to tweak features "out of the box" with built-in guardrails. We learned the hard way that when agents write nearly all the code, useEffect often becomes the culprit behind systemic frontend bugs. We only encountered these issues because we are constantly pushing the boundaries of agentic software development. Fixing the process is more important than fixing the (direct) problem. On a note regarding marketing strategy: traditional, polished product announcements from PR teams don't work anymore. Sharing raw, authentic, "on the ground" stories about the interesting problems teams are solving is far more engaging.

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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
I've been working on improving the speed of generating language stories for my startup itsumo.study. I love that I can make a Japanese story about current events and just add puppies and cake to it.
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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
lol I just made myself a /sanitize-soccer-stream skill
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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
My new favorite use of Claude Code and Chrome MCP is cleaning up sketchy soccer stream sites and reducing them to just the video player.
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Steve Ruiz@steveruizok·
It does bother me that it costs money to code now
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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
So one vulnerability for @AnthropicAI is that when Claude Code has issues, devs aren't going to have the patience to wait for the issue to get resolved. Agentic coding is like crack, and I really need to finish the work I'm doing right now :/
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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
if Claude Code is down for you right now switch to Sonnet for a bit
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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
@thymikee oh if i switch to sonnet it works. it looks like it's just an opus issue
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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
Why is Claude Code down but with this energy
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TechHalla
TechHalla@techhalla·
The game engine I'm cooking (RAMEN) is finally coming together! 🍜 Anyone down to test it out? I'm droppin the first version next week and it's gonna include: · Video to spritesheet generator (AI video compatible) · Spatial detection for 2D backgrounds for custom lights and shadows · Node-based game logic. Totally no-code · Tons of other stuff focused on making a 100% playable 2D adventure in just a couple of days This is just the tipo of the iceberg, so saty tuned for more details, but if you're intersted on testing it, just let me kno in the comments. Thanks!!
TechHalla@techhalla

Indie game devs are about to love me (or hate me) for this... I built an AI workflow (app included) that spits out spritesheets in minutes, from assets created on freepik. Breaking it all down below 👇

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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
@ScriptedAlchemy I think we haven't figured out what an orchestrator is supposed to do. I don't know how to replace myself yet
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Supreme Leader Wiggum@ScriptedAlchemy·
Beyond a handful of tricks. I don’t think orchestrators are worth it.
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Beto@betomoedano·
🍌 Platano (our upcoming React Native template for AI image apps) now supports multiple languages. Just run add-language and Claude handles the rest. It ships with English and Spanish by default. Get early access 👇
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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
@GergelyOrosz @jorilallo @karrisaarinen I don't have to wait for some PM to prioritize my needs against the needs of other users, and for that team to cut through the organizational bs it takes to deliver a feature. I don't want my company operations to run on the lowest common denominator for everyone. I want tailored
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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
@GergelyOrosz @jorilallo @karrisaarinen I think this is still stuck in pre-ai economics. It really doesn't take away that much attention to have AI agents working on tools that improve our operations. I can file a ticket for whatever feature I want or bug that needs to be fixed and it gets fixed.
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Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz·
Sage observation from @karrisaarinen (CEO of Linear) It now makes SO MUCH sense why I see a bunch of eng teams rebuilt a SaaS vendor in-house with AI, brag about and feel good They are doing side quests... and they don't even know it. And they are not helping their co win!!
Karri Saarinen@karrisaarinen

yeah it is but everything in moderation. Internally we always talked about main quest and side quests. Everyone should focus on the main quest, and moderately or not all on side quests. Both quest lines feel productive but only one of them advances the main mission of the company.

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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
I've been seeing some comments saying that one model has better design taste than another, and that's... a weird thing to say? Taste is _your_ job, not the LLMs
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