Danny Thompson

Senior Developer Advocate at Atlassian | Co-Host of The Programming Podcast |
I've helped 1000s of people land jobs in tech |

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

I JUST RECEIVED THE FINAL VERSION OF THE BOOK!🥹

We poured EVERYTHING into this book. Many books focus on AI from the perspective of the highest levels of education but what about the average corporate dev that wants to stay ahead & do well at their jobs?

We wrote this for you!

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

@NaomiLGBT @Polymarket Ever since I started using more local models for basic tasks I cut everything by a ton.

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

@cindymn_codes @jerrymannel Legend! 🙌

[Cindy @cindymn_codes]

First book I purchased as an adult using my own money. I know it will be worth it!

Special thanks to these people: Danny, Jerry & Jacob😎
#AI #WebDev #SoftwareEngineer #TechAI

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

@hey_amandam @CascadiaJS @DeepgramAI @NaomiLGBT @Vapi_AI Naomi is literally the best!

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

@CNASIR2_0 Brother, I ain't a realtor lol

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

We might be on track to have 112 speakers this year for CYC26.👀

CFP is closed and we are going through all the submissions now trying to narrow everything down.

As a reminder, Virtual tickets are free.
In person is $40 and 100% is donated to charity!
food covered!

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

HE GOT THE JOB Y'ALL!!!
He did it 🥹

He has absolutely poured in so much effort to make this happen! Going to meetups, networking, cohorts and more! He absolutely did it y'all!

He got the new company laptop so now it's official!
Show Jim some love y'all!

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

@corelumen Clean!

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

I have received COUNTLESS amounts of praise for my own website. Many times people even saying "This is so original. This is what we need more of instead of the same websites AI makes."

I literally made this entire site with AI. I just don't give it prompts like "Make me a portfolio site" and expect something unique and fantastic to come out because of it.

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

One reason AI sucks at design is because you're bad at telling it what you want

Experienced designers have a thousand shorthands for expressing design in words:

- "set the text tighter/looser", "bump the leading"
- "tighten it up", "let it breathe", "fix the hierarchy"
- "anchor", "rhythm", "negative space"

Feels like a skill waiting to be written here

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

@cljwebdev Thanks man! Took a lot to get it the right way I wanted

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

You can buy the template, but you have to earn the architecture.

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

I have received COUNTLESS amounts of praise for my own website. Many times people even saying "This is so original. This is what we need more of instead of the same websites AI makes."

I literally made this entire site with AI.
I just don't give it prompts like "Make me a portfolio site" and expect something unique and fantastic to come out because of it.

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

The biggest reason why companies are not seeing clear wins in their companies with AI is due to one main thing.

AI literacy.

If your companies plan for AI adoption is throwing a license at your engineering teams and telling them to "figure it out", it will not work out well.

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

@FrancescoCiull4 When do you leave? I will be there in 10 days!

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

Hopefully we will have the full speaker lineup for Commit Your Code Conference 2026 announced this week on the website!

I think we have around 30 of the 100 speakers currently on the site!

95 Days away! 🤯

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

@FrancescoCiull4 Time flies man!

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

@RoxanaCodes Let's gooo!

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

@thechrismcneese unfortunately it is. We have WAAAAY too many submissions and that's why it has taken so long to get to this stage as we have been going through them all.

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

@kentcdodds Gemini Gave me Harvey Specter from Suits lol.

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

@kentcdodds Claude gave me Coach Eric Taylor (Friday Night Lights). The reasoning, I can't argue with. I'm not mad at it. Haven't watched the show and I am not familiar with the person but based on the reasoning, I'll take it!