Craig Smith

Experienced Retail Professional and specialist in new technology. Worked with large multi-channel retailers as a supplier and employee

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

This is a very interesting list as we work out which people we're not following but should

https://t.co/QW8JqVn7sR

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

@levelsio Excellent summary. Very insightful

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

Autonomous AI is ready to automate commerce, but adoption is blocked by communication gaps. 🚧That's changing fast! New, natural-language open standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are emerging, enabling seamless communication between people and agents AdCP, ACP & onX

[Marc Benioff @Benioff]

Wow! We just put a human-in-the-loop within ChatGPT. ❤️🤖

[Eric Simons @EricSimons]

In October, we launched @boltdotnew with just a tweet. We had no idea what destiny had in store, but it was nuts:

• $0-20m ARR in 2 months
• 2m+ registered users
• #1 web AI code app globally

Today, we're announcing we've raised $105.5m: 🧵

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the programming occupation will become extinct [...] than that it will become all-powerful. More and more, computers will program themselves.”​ Statements discouraging people from learning to code are harmful!

In the 1960s, when programming moved from punchcards (where a programmer had to laboriously make holes in physical cards to write code character by character) to keyboards with terminals, programming became easier. And that made it a better time than before to begin programming. Yet it was in this era that Nobel laureate Herb Simon wrote the words quoted in the first paragraph. Today’s arguments not to learn to code continue to echo his comment.

As coding becomes easier, more people should code, not fewer!

Over the past few decades, as programming has moved from assembly language to higher-level languages like C, from desktop to cloud, from raw text editors to IDEs to AI assisted coding where sometimes one barely even looks at the generated code (which some coders recently started to call vibe coding), it is getting easier with each step.

I wrote previously that I see tech-savvy people coordinating AI tools to move toward being 10x professionals — individuals who have 10 times the impact of the average person in their field. I am increasingly convinced that the best way for many people to accomplish this is not to be just consumers of AI applications, but to learn enough coding to use AI-assisted coding tools effectively.

One question I’m asked most often is what someone should do who is worried about job displacement by AI. My answer is: Learn about AI and take control of it, because one of the most important skills in the future will be the ability to tell a computer exactly what you want, so it can do that for you. Coding (or getting AI to code for you) is a great way to do that.

When I was working on the course Generative AI for Everyone and needed to generate AI artwork for the background images, I worked with a collaborator who had studied art history and knew the language of art. He prompted Midjourney with terminology based on the historical style, palette, artist inspiration and so on — using the language of art — to get the result he wanted. I didn’t know this language, and my paltry attempts at prompting could not deliver as effective a result.

Similarly, scientists, analysts, marketers, recruiters, and people of a wide range of professions who understand the language of software through their knowledge of coding can tell an LLM or an AI-enabled IDE what they want much more precisely, and get much better results. As these tools are continuing to make coding easier, this is the best time yet to learn to code, to learn the language of software, and learn to make computers do exactly what you want them to do.

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[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

@elonmusk Why are you getting involved in UK policing matter without having full grasp on the facts? Seems odd and a bit sad that a man with such genius is getting sucked into making judgements on situations where he can’t be close to the detail. Come on Elon, focus!!

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

@amirkingkhan Well said sir

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

@miele

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

@Lord_Sugar Sorry to hear that @Lord_Sugar. Your sister was married to my Grandma Sylvia Regal’s brother Harold who I know you dedicate your book to. Sylvia had four of us Grandchildren through her only daughter Hilary.

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

@DWFitnessFirst I’ve asked for a refund for August as can’t use the gym and didn’t realise id be billed (missed email). customer service refuse to refund. If I’m not refunded I will leave after almost 6 years with the gym. Seems like a low cost to retain a customer.

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

Q2 Shopping Index now live - one of the most interesting quarters since the birth of e-commerce https://t.co/z5toDEQgDU

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

In the past 20 years retail has undergone its biggest transformation. The birth of the internet in the 90s and the popularisation of the smartphone in the following decade totally transformed the way we shop. Read more:
https://t.co/TWkuoEdvPJ

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

@skytv I want to cancel my sky but you make me jump on a call queue and don’t respond to live chat. I’ve sent an email as advised in your faq but no reply. Really poor customer experience

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

@PureGym East Sheen gym looks good. Any chance you could invest in a wattbike? You’re in the biggest cycling hotspot in the world (according to strava) so proper cycles with power output would be a big draw I’m sure

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

Topshop on the Strand this morning. Things that desperate or a cunning attempt to get customers back in store to reassess? https://t.co/sJJF7jAnQW

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

I rode past what was Evans Cycles on The Cut, Waterloo tonight - the iconic store that properly started the cycle trade in London is now shutdown! They used to build FW Evans bikes there back in the early days - some of which I occasionally spot when ridi…https://t.co/4UWnapICyT

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

End of an era. They’ve closed the Evans Cycles store on the Cut in Waterloo. Evans Cycles was owned by my Grandad and then Dad up until around 2008 when there were around 30 stores. The Cut store used to be the premier destination…https://t.co/I4HWmOT8V5 https://t.co/Ag4pOfJZiw

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

Front-end developers across our customer base are constantly creating new and engaging types of content rather than churning out the same looking content over and over again. https://t.co/PCDX9qk8F6

[Craig Smith @craigwsmith]

If you’re buying software then you need to read this excellent article. Don’t let cyclops fool you! https://t.co/T6jT94l5Tt