Neil Raina

Cofounder/CTO Software engineer and builder. YC and UWaterloo alum. Previous Pinterest.

[Neil Raina @NeilRaina]

@cnakazawa Skills get partly loaded in context. Makes them a lot easier for agents to discover without direct prompting to look at docs that might be a lot larger and not needed in context. I’m sure there are ways to design referencing docs intelligently, but skills just make it easier

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@mattpocockuk maybe an obvious question. When you use these skills are you in plan mode or accept edits? E.g. What is your configuration (model, effort, mode) when you use the write a prd skill?

[Assembly @assemblycom]

Assembly 2.0 is here.
Our biggest release yet. See the major features ⬇️

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@rauchg v0 is amazing. Along with improving the models it would be amazing to see more effort put in to the platform.

Our company is putting in a lot of effort there and running int a lot of hiccups.

Two things, the links to github discussion and discord on the overview page don't work. Secondly, one of the documented workflows of starting with existing files from a github repo doesn't event build and deploy. The same repo would deploy perfectly if done directly through vercel.

Im optimistic we'll see a lot of improvements. DM's open if you want me to share any specifics.

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@clairevo @v0 @chatprd @vercel @ctatedev Cool! Is v0 the only platform you can do this with and basically build your own ai app builder? Curious if you can do this with @Lovable?

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An engineers ability to produce more has sky rocketed, getting it over the line seems to be the bottleneck.

How are teams overcoming some of the existing human in the loop slowness in the age of agents? I’m talking about things like code reviews, testing, fine tuning solutions.

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@sarthakgh Most mature orgs will have another team member do a code review. Where does that happen?

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—dangerously-skip-permissions

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@apitemplateio seeing some issues when creating pdfs and uploading to s3. would really appreciate any help looking into this!

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@marlonmisra @LxngevityLab 💀

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new @readme rollout is garbage. Tried the upgrade and it completely messed up our docs. now firefighting to figure out how to get thing reverted, and of course their support responds at a snails pace. PSA for anyone thinking of accepting the refresh.

[Neil Raina @NeilRaina]

every year over the past decade, i’ve worked harder than the year before. 2025 will be no exception—let’s keep the streak alive.

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@marlonmisra 🤯

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Excited to share some major updates from our latest launch! It’s an amazing feeling to build something that’s making a real difference for so many businesses. The day-to-day can be intense, but moments like these show how all the dedication and effort align.

[Assembly @assemblycom]

https://t.co/yJrjVxFecR

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Big fan of @cursor_ai so far. Only feature that feels like it doesn't quite work yet is the codebase chat. Im optimistic that will get better too.

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There is a large number of South Asians software engineers, but I rarely meet any one named Dev (pronounced D-aye-v) despite it being a relatively common name. Why? Are they actively avoiding their namesake? 🤔

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At https://t.co/U9xKcwuiNv we moved to TS some time ago but didn’t fail compiling on errors from the start.

Instead, we setup a step in our CI that counts the number of errors and enforced this number can only decrease with the goal of getting this to 0!

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If you use Typescript but your compile step succeeds even with errors or you are using ‘any’ then you aren’t really getting the major benefits of using it in the first place.

Invest in the steps to make this happen in your app and it will really pay off!

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Its finally live!! Its hard enough to build a product that people want but building a platform where others can build on top of your product is a game changer. Excited to see what people build 🚀

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Why was CeeLo Green dressed like Wednesday Adams 👀