David Thompson

@dhwthompson
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Great big nerd. Originally 🇬🇧, now also 🇺🇸, living out west in Washington.
LocationRedmond, WA, USA
Websitehttps://dhwthompson.com
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/dhwthompson
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David ThompsonMar 25
@lzg I once had to bust out “because that’s how time works” at a previous manager, and I’m still just a little proud of it.
Show threadDavid ThompsonMar 23
@jonty In fairness, whom’st’ve among us doesn’t also see computers as a challenge.
David ThompsonMar 10
Show threadEugen RochkoMar 10
From what I've observed, people who claim that LLMs can replace artists don't understand art, people who claim that they can replace musicians don't understand music, people who claim that they can replace writers don't understand literature, and people who claim they can replace translators don't rely on translations. If I had a button that would erase LLMs from the world but it would take machine translations away (which is a false dichotomy anyway), I would absolutely still press it.
David ThompsonMar 10
Show threadMike Prior-JonesMar 7
@robpumphrey it should be A series paper. A4 is a family lasagne. A6 is a one person ready meal.
Show threadDavid ThompsonFeb 27

@andrew This is good and encouraging news.

I’m not sure my brain quite knows what to do with good and encouraging news any more.

Show threadDavid ThompsonFeb 17
@Meyerweb @beep [witticism]
David ThompsonFeb 4
richardjpopeFeb 4
So much work is doomed from the start because of the assumption you can successfully chop up it up into discrete parts in advance, then try and create coherence through governance retrospectively. ‘Workstreams’. ‘Pillars’, all that nonsense, is, more often than not, based on a flawed assumption.
Show threadDavid ThompsonFeb 2
@Thayer Oh, fuck everything about this. I’m so sorry.
David ThompsonJan 14
Adrianna TanJan 14

Yarnspinner has a pretty good take

https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/

Why We Don't Use AI | Yarn Spinner

We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we use it ourselves, what we think about it. Fair questions. Time to write it all down. Yarn Spinner doesn’t use the technology that’s currently being called AI. We don’t have generative AI features in the product, and we don’t use code generation tools to build it, and we don’t accept contributions we know contain generated material. Let’s talk about why.

David ThompsonJan 6
Anil DashJan 5
The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a-tech-career-in-2026/
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash