Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 01/09/2026The medium is the message — if your artistic medium is AI, the message is that you don’t care about artistic expression 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 25/07/2026My dad’s designing a bike shed, so naturally I asked him what colour it was going to be. The important questions come first 000
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Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 09/07/2026The Figma is not the design system. The code library is not the design system. The documentation is not the design system. #designsystems 110
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 30/04/2026AI 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 020
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 13/04/2026I 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. 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 06/04/2026I don’t think “reasoning models” or “agents” change this either. No amount of agentic reasoning can cause the model to create something non-derivative 010
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 06/04/2026Personally, I fall into Camp 2, at least when it comes to art. These models may be somewhat of a “black box” still, but they’re still deterministic machines. 100
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 06/04/2026Its therefore not OK to use AI to create art, since it’s not meaningfully different from using an “advanced autocomplete” that could “suggest” the works of Tolkien 100
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 06/04/2026Camp 2 sees the LLM as a complex, but deterministic mathematical model, and that the existence of copyrighted material in the model means that any generation using that model inherently contains that material. 100
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 06/04/2026Camp 1 personifies an LLM, and holds that the use of copyrighted material in training, and subsequent generations is just like humans drawing inspiration from said material. It’s therefore OK to use AI in creating art, since it’s no different from a person being inspired by Tolkien 100
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 06/04/2026I’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 100
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 03/04/2026If I already reviewed Claude’s code, why do I need to submit that code for further code review? (Only half sarcastic here) 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 03/04/2026In 6-12 months we’re going to start hearing about “zero-token workflows” 100
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 16/03/2026Spent 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. 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 13/03/2026Couple this with the fact that AI makes it easy to write 1000+ line PRs, it’s no wonder I have a backlog of code to review 011
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 13/03/2026But now that I can’t be sure that someone wrote the PR themselves, this heuristic breaks and I need to more thoroughly review everything 100
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 13/03/2026I used to be able to use knowledge of my teammates to make code review faster. If I knew someone was stellar at CSS but struggled with writing good tests, I’d skim the CSS and do a more thorough review of the tests 100
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 13/03/2026Has 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 110
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 13/01/2026Working on an exciting project at work, but it’s a bit hard to feel engaged at the moment 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 03/01/2026Can’t say I approve, but this feels like run-of-the-mill American “Monroe Doctrine” interventionism more than anything 010
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 18/12/2025Sittim. 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 010
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 11/12/2025Web developers: If you are starting a new project from scratch, what styling/css-in-js libraries would you use? 020
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 10/12/2025Estimating 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.comWhy is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use??YouTube video by Hank Green 010
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 09/12/2025Having 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.caMark Carney: climate friend or foe? | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC ListenIn 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... 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 03/12/2025Since no one’s actually shared it yet, here’s the link to the article financialpost.com/news/canada-...financialpost.comCanada reaches deal to join EU’s flagship defence programCanada has reached a deal to join the European Union’s €150 billion ($243 billion) military procurement fund, David McGuinty said. Read on 120
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 01/12/2025Probably best to avoid planning a vacation to Aruba now, right? 010
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 25/11/2025I’ve unintentionally started reading MCP-UI as if it’s a Scottish name, McPooey 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 23/11/2025It's also asking for my password inside the chat window instead of automatically focusing the actual terminal window 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 23/11/2025I 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 300
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 21/11/2025Genuinely curious how you handle that though. Appreciate the disclaimer, but are you really gonna spend the hour+ to determine whether their code works? And if it doesn’t, how do you provide that feedback since it doesn’t seem like they really understand their code in the first place? 220
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 19/11/2025Mint Sage. Still super rough and needs work 😅 github.com/TheSonOfThom...github.com 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 19/11/2025media.tenor.coma man in a military uniform with a sash that says right to jail on itALT: a man in a military uniform with a sash that says right to jail on it 010
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 18/11/2025Couldn’t pay for my NJ transit ticket this morning because CloudFlare is down 🤷 140
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! 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 13/11/2025How 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 100
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 12/11/2025The irony of being sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, with the main story being Newsom going to COP30 010
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 08/11/2025Abigail Thorn once again knocking it out of the park on Philosophy Tube 01017
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 08/11/2025“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” 040
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 08/11/2025We needed AI regulation and guard rails yesterday www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...cnn.comChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNNA 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit. 010
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 15/10/2025What 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.devmcpui.devMCP-UI | Interactive UI Components for MCPInteractive UI for MCP - Build rich, dynamic interfaces with MCP-UI 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 15/10/2025Front Burner with Jayme Poisson: Canada’s bet on an AI boom www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...cbc.caCanada’s bet on an AI boom | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC ListenCanada's first ever minister of artificial intelligence, Evan Solomon, is spearheading what he's calling a "30-day sprint" to nail down Canada's AI strategy. The plan? To figure out a government appro... 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 15/10/2025Not 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.comPrediction: the Successor to PostmodernismThe defining reframe of the AI generation 010
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 15/10/2025It feels like the (unspoken) goal of all these companies is to achieve AGI before the bubble pops 000
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.atThe Case Against Generative AISoundtrack: 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... 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 09/10/2025I don’t see a reason we couldn’t though. Sweden has a quarter of our population, but they have Volvo and Saab. Korea is only slightly larger and have Kia and Hyundai. 000
Adam Thompson @thesonofthomp.com · 09/10/2025Did 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. 200