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How I Design with AI(ref.tools)
24 points by reactiverobot 20d ago|12 comments
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by reactiverobot 20d ago
i like to work via Plans in ref.tools first I jot down my notes then I work with one agent to write a plan. this is just the first draft. Once I have a draft, I start to leave comments to ask questions and launch multiple agents to research
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How I design with AI as an engineer who is not a designer and hates slop(ref.tools)
1 points by reactiverobot 22d ago|0 comments
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by reactiverobot 1mo ago
haha that visual is perfect
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by reactiverobot 1mo ago
thank you! yeah it's all about the right balance :D
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AI Broke Code Review and It's Breaking Your Team(ref.tools)
19 points by reactiverobot 1mo ago|6 comments
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by reactiverobot 1mo ago
Hi everyone, I’m Matt, founder of Ref ( https://ref.tools ). Ref is the shared workspace where engineering teams align on what agents should build before code gets written. Every engineering team is battling the same problem. We c
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Things I said as a manager part 6: Leveling up hurts(reactiverobot.com)
4 points by reactiverobot 1y ago|0 comments
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by reactiverobot 1y ago
ref-tools-mcp is similar and does support openai's deep research spec
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Show HN: Simple visual tools for common situations in your LLM via mcp-UI(github.com)
2 points by reactiverobot 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Todo.md(todo.figma.site)
2 points by reactiverobot 1y ago|0 comments
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Things I said as a manager part 4: Only outcomes matter(reactiverobot.com)
2 points by reactiverobot 1y ago|0 comments
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Things I said as a manager part 4: Always be pitching(reactiverobot.com)
1 points by reactiverobot 1y ago|0 comments
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Pieces of Autonomy(reactiverobot.com)
4 points by reactiverobot 1y ago|0 comments
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Ref uses MCP to build documentation search that minimizes token use(ref.tools)
1 points by reactiverobot 1y ago|1 comments
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by reactiverobot 1y ago
Hi! I'm the developer of Ref ( https://ref.tools ), the MCP server for giving coding agents access to public and private docs. Ref's goal is to provide exactly the tokens you need to guide the model and nothing else. I&#
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by reactiverobot 1y ago
Hi! I'm the developer of ref.tools. Would love to know what you're searching that you couldn't find, very occasionally things are missing from the index. Drop me a line at matt@ref.tools Also FYI a bunch of search quality imp
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by reactiverobot 2y ago
Thanks I appreciate the kind response! The fun and nerve wracking thing about posting on hackernews - I get takes I never would have expected lol I'm surprised you took away from this that I think the goal should be making more humans
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Legacy(reactiverobot.com)
3 points by reactiverobot 2y ago|3 comments
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by reactiverobot 2y ago
A little nervous sharing since last time I posted some personal writing on here I got flamed to the front page, hopefully I don't offend anyone this time :)
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Things I said as a manager part 3: Code review is your job(reactiverobot.com)
3 points by reactiverobot 2y ago|0 comments
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by reactiverobot 2y ago
lol true.
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by reactiverobot 2y ago
Yeah you're right a months long process would be horrible! Fortunately, that didn't happen in this case. Part of building a team is getting to know talented people before they're looking for a job so when they're ready t
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by reactiverobot 2y ago
Yes! You're right! That would be way too long for an interview loop. I'm sorry I wasn't clear in the article. The candidate and I first met long before they were interested in interviewing. They had potential and I got to kno
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by reactiverobot 2y ago
It sounds like you understand the burden of being an interviewer! Can you share a little more about what made the decision emotional or impulsive? I'd love to make sure my writing is clear and it sounds like it wasn't. While buil
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by reactiverobot 2y ago
I can't share the specifics of feedback but you're right that's the most interesting part of this decision and where I could learn the most. Ultimately, it's a hard to reverse decision with imperfect information and that
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by reactiverobot 2y ago
That's a really good analogy that the longest rollercoaster is 4 minutes. You're absolutely right that a months long interview process would suck. Fortunately, that wasn't what happened. I've added an amendment to the st
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by reactiverobot 2y ago
Hey everyone, it's the author here! Many of you have made an inaccurate assumption about something that I should have clarified in the article. As a hiring manager you do cold out reach and meet people well before they are ready to loo
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Things I said as a manager part 2: Hiring is emotional(reactiverobot.com)
59 points by reactiverobot 2y ago|66 comments
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Things I said as a manager part 1: Burnout happens(reactiverobot.com)
2 points by reactiverobot 2y ago|0 comments

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