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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 01/09/2026

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

Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 25/07/2026

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

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/07/2026

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.

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 09/07/2026

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 30/04/2026

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 13/04/2026

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.

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 06/04/2026

I’m noticing two philosophical camps when it comes to the question of AI and copyright. Camp 1 anthropomorphizes an LLM, whereas Camp 2 sees an LLM more like a deterministic prediction machine

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 03/04/2026

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 03/04/2026

In 6-12 months we’re going to start hearing about “zero-token workflows”

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 16/03/2026

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.

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 13/03/2026

Has AI increased my productivity? For purely coding tasks, sure. But the pre-existing bottleneck of code review has stayed the same, if not gotten worse

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 13/01/2026

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

People sitting around a campfire in a post apocalyptic setting. The elder says to the others “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 03/01/2026

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 18/12/2025

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 11/12/2025

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 10/12/2025

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...

youtube.com

Why is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use??

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 09/12/2025

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...

cbc.ca

Mark Carney: climate friend or foe? | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen

In 2015, as governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney’s ‘Tragedy of the Horizons’ speech made waves in the global climate community. It was seen as a landmark call for the financial sector to recog...

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 01/12/2025

Been saving up that Apple Cash

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 01/12/2025

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 25/11/2025

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 23/11/2025

I really like Warp terminal, but agents seem to have gotten worse in the latest update. Why is it opening `nano` and simulating keystrokes now? It never used to do that, and would just read and `cat >` straight into a file

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 18/11/2025

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 17/11/2025

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 13/11/2025

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

An ad featuring an AI generated image of a man standing in a garden in front of a solar panel array

An ad featuring an AI generated video of a woman crouching in a garden

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 12/11/2025

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

Screenshot of the NYTimes “Headlines” podcast, titled “Governor in the spotlight at climate talks”

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 08/11/2025

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 23/10/2025

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 15/10/2025

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

mcpui.dev

MCP-UI | Interactive UI Components for MCP

Interactive UI for MCP - Build rich, dynamic interfaces with MCP-UI

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 15/10/2025

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...

substack.com

Prediction: the Successor to Postmodernism

The defining reframe of the AI generation

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 15/10/2025

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 09/10/2025

“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...

wheresyoured.at

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 09/10/2025

Did Canada ever have any of our own car companies? I assume if any ever did exist, they were absorbed into the big auto makers in Detroit.

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 30/09/2025

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 26/09/2025

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 21/09/2025

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

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 05/09/2025

Maturity in design is knowing when to pick your battles

The "How it works" section AWS CodeArtifact homepage depicting an image of a flow chart, with a label and button below reading "Image too small? Expand"

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 29/08/2025

It’s pretty embarrassing that while the US is investing in AI and tech infrastructure, Canada is still figuring out how to sell our rocks, trees and oil to countries other than the States

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 11/07/2025

A pyramid scheme that leverages generative AI models: LLMMLM

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 17/05/2025

I’ve been to several book stores looking for a copy of “Moby Dick”, but it seems to be sold out everywhere. I wish there was a literary reference to describe this experience

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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 15/05/2025