Adam Thompson

The medium is the message — if your artistic medium is AI, the message is that you don’t care about artistic expression

My dad’s designing a bike shed, so naturally I asked him what colour it was going to be. The important questions come first

If you’re a software engineer, designer, or technologist who wants to help make City government work better and faster, apply to join our PIT crews at nyc.gov/pitcrew.

The Figma is not the design system. The code library is not the design system. The documentation is not the design system. #designsystems

AI is a powerful tool. But just like any other power tool, you can do a lot of damage id you don’t know what you’re doing

I understand the resentment towards @mark-carney.bsky.social’s comments: AI is painfully upheaving so many industries. But Pandora’s Box is opened. The technology exists; there’s no going back on that. The best our governments can do is ensure that it’s used and deployed responsibly, and equitably.

If I already reviewed Claude’s code, why do I need to submit that code for further code review? (Only half sarcastic here)

Spent a good chunk of the weekend setting up OpenClaw. Now that I’m thinking with Agents, I’m annoyed I can’t set it up to do the actual tedious parts of my life like laundry and cleaning.

Working on an exciting project at work, but it’s a bit hard to feel engaged at the moment

Can’t say I approve, but this feels like run-of-the-mill American “Monroe Doctrine” interventionism more than anything

Sittim. Sittim is the opposite of standim. But it’s also the opposite of runnin aroun, and standim on u head. This implies that Sittim exists on a complex hyper plane of locomotion. In this essay I will

Web developers: If you are starting a new project from scratch, what styling/css-in-js libraries would you use?

Estimating AI water use is hard and complex. It uses less than growing corn, but building a data center in the desert is still dumb youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6...

Having recently read his book, I don’t think Carney is betraying his Value(s), rather he’s responding to the shifting priorities and values of Canadians since November of last year. However, he could probably do a better job at communicating his longer term vision www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Been saving up that Apple Cash

Probably best to avoid planning a vacation to Aruba now, right?

I’ve unintentionally started reading MCP-UI as if it’s a Scottish name, McPooey

Couldn’t pay for my NJ transit ticket this morning because CloudFlare is down 🤷

@gnumanth.bsky.social Will you be around at React Summit tomorrow? Would love to chat with you about embedding UI from an MCP!

How should we market to climate-conscious people? How about shitty AI videos of people claiming to care about the climate! Brilliant. 10/10. Zero irony detected

The irony of being sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, with the main story being Newsom going to COP30

Abigail Thorn once again knocking it out of the park on Philosophy Tube

We needed AI regulation and guard rails yesterday www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

#! #! Oh, baby, when she moves, she moves

What are we calling the bite-sized visual interactions generated with MCP-UI? I'm going with "Micro-UI" for now (or µUI for short) mcpui.dev

Front Burner with Jayme Poisson: Canada’s bet on an AI boom www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Not sure I agree that “prediction” is the defining aesthetic of our era—gambling and markets have been around for ages. However this does feel similar to Mark Carney’s idea that we’re moving from a market economy to a Market Society where all of life is commodified substack.com/@danco/p-175...

It feels like the (unspoken) goal of all these companies is to achieve AGI before the bubble pops

“LLMs often function like a fresh summer intern…who can’t learn” Having used AI for the last several months, this is my take as well. Actually, our summer intern was much better, and she could learn! Great piece by @edzitron.com on the reality of the AI market www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Lutnick said Canada should acknowledge and understand that "America is first, and Canada can be second," Good luck with that apple.news/AikDqvTC4TDm...

Wasn’t part of the SAG-AFTRA strike agreement a few years ago supposed to prevent things like “Tilly Norwood”?

Looking for good examples of using UML for frontend, particularly in React. Anyone have any good sources?

AI is terrible at writing code in languages I’m experienced in, but seems to be pretty good at languages I’m less familiar with

Maturity in design is knowing when to pick your battles