the developer's guide to ai can officially be bought in-person, or ordered, from @barnesandnoble.com 🎉 📷 by @dthompsondev.bsky.social

Cursor just got acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion. - IDEs already existed - VS Code was free - JetBrains was around Cursor didn't invent the category. Stop thinking you need to cure cancer with code to succeed. Build YOUR solution It might be exactly what someone else needs.

Shit, my secret has been revealed 🤦

Step 1: Buy Domain Step 2: Abandon Project

THE BEST PART from Seattle last night at the Atlassian office: watching the room go from leaning back in their chairs to leaning forward, taking notes, when we started showing what Rovo, Teamwork Graph & Forge can do! My heart is full y'all Thank you for making my first trip to the PNW amazing! 🧡

Last Night was a HUGE SUCCESS San Francisco! I wish I took more pics! - I showed how I use voice messages in Whatsapp to orchestrate agents in Jira - Reign showed teamwork graph & Agentic building! So many great people showed up to last night's meetup! Now headed to Seattle!

18 months of work Countless revisions Sleepless nights In just 3 HOURS, "The Developer's Guide To AI" is officially live everywhere! I just wrapped up the book website & I'm so hyped with how it turned out. Check it out and let me know what you think! www.developerguide.ai

SPEAKERS FOR THE COMMIT YOUR CODE CONFERENCE! Spent my Sunday working on this. We have 112 speakers this year! Still adding more to the site but I love seeing these amazing people in the same place! 100% of ALL ticket sales donated to charity. The conference FOR the community!

SF and Seattle! I'm hosting meetups in your cities this week! Tuesday and Thursday! A Night Of Enterprise AI! Who do I know in these areas? 🤔

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!

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!

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

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! 🤯

After 2.5 weeks of traveling I'm finally home 😮‍💨 Exhausted but going to rest up because I'm less than 2 weeks I will be in San Francisco and then Seattle for meetups Atlassian is hosting!!

Right now, there are two extremes with AI: 1. Total AI Slop 2. Refusal to use it/bare minimum use In between is the sweet spot where real value, progress, & success are. The problem? Everyone is so busy jumping to the extremes that they're missing the actual opportunity.

Fine-tuning isn't the answer. It's the last resort. Try prompts. Then RAG. THEN fine-tune. If you skipped to step 3, you're spending 10x to solve a step 1 problem.

Here's the math nobody runs that will change how you think about this: You are interviewing for a job that is offering $100K per year. Standard annual raise = 3% or in this case, $3,000. You negotiate +$20K at the offer stage of the job interview. ⤵️

No podcast episode this week folks. I have been traveling nonstop and we haven't had time to record but hopefully we will be back on schedule for next week.

NEED HELP. Buying my kid this PC today. Specs look good to me but wanting to put this out there in case there are some hardware folks that know something that I don't. Is there anything that folks know that I should be aware of or cautious of?

Frame AI prompts POSITIVELY. Respond in JSON > Don't respond in plain text. Negative framing forces your AI models to guess what positive actually looks like.

GitHub compromised 😮‍💨. Feels like every week something is getting hacked.

AUSTRALIA! I made it! Meetup on the 18th (tomorrow)! We are going to be showcasing Enterprise AI and shifting how many of you use AI in your workplaces and personal use! You cannot out prompt a bad architecture! Will I see you there Sydney? The meetup will be in the CBD area!

I was just asked this question & now I want to ask you! How much code is being written by software engineers vs AI agents? I ask because I wanted to know if software engineers still write code or not, or do they just review the AI output and decide if the code is okay & push it to the main branch?

The book I bought at Commit Your Code came in this week. Shouts to @dthompsondev.bsky.social and everyone involved. Congrats!

It was an amazing week at Atlassian's Team '26! From software developers, Jira admin, product managers, investors, and executives! I learned so much and was able to help educate many people on Forge and Rovo AI! It's 5am now and time to head to the airport y'all!

Listened to Ep 26 of The Programming Podcast from @leonnoel.bsky.social & @dthompsondev.bsky.social while driving. It's from May 8th of last year. This one was about breaking into tech with a roundtable including @leaht.codes from #100Devs & Pariss Athena, from Black Tech Pipeline. #webdev

Every Thursday at 10am Central we do a discord wide call in the Commit Your Code Discord. The Software Developer Power Hour! Answering questions that people want to know the answers to! Career growth, code reviews, and more! Come hang out with 13,000 developers! discord.gg/9skeTRryT

Good news. I met a couple guys that know @dthompsondev.bsky.social - because duh. 🤣🤣 And I made a friend who recognized me from Devops days Atlanta! 😅 Time to visit with an old college roommate and then fall into bed. 🥰

It is Team week Y'all! Headed to Anaheim for the week! It's Atlassians Flagship Conference, Team '26! Our team has 3 workshops this week and booth duty. Going to fun and interesting meeting everyone in the Atlassian ecosystem! If you are there come say Hi at the Forge booth! #Team26

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!

Since I am cleaning my PC I figured I would record a step by step tutorial of the process and turn it into a YouTube video to help others. Just waiting on it to dry right now. How do you clean your PC? 🤔

The day has finally come. Going to clean this whole thing. Dawn dish soap works best right?

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA! I will be there in 2 weeks! Who do I know in Australia y'all? Thinking about doing a tech meetup!

CYC26 is 4 months out. We are currently at 200 tickets sold! Of course, we donate 100% of ALL TICKET SALES to charity. We are also looking like we will have 110 speakers this year. We reduced the number a bit from last year so we can create some extra networking time for y'all!

Hey Folks! Anyone that has read "The Developers Guide To AI" I am putting up a website for it. If anyone has actaully read the book and wants to provide a testimonial for it, I would love to have your words on the site!

Going through one of my old note binders and found some good ole jQuery! Learning jQuery at that time got me talking to some very senior developers and they ended up guiding me to Angular. That's why community is so important. Built my entire career because of that move.

This simple trick changes the entire vibe of an interview in the first minute. I have been using this for years. Remember, an interview is set up to be an interrogation. They ask. You answer. Your goal should be to turn this into a conversation so they LEARN ABOUT YOU!

Story of my life right here. 😭

Forgot to post the link to sign up lol Also, it is 100% free as always. Form forms.gle/UDroWhG97WR5...

LAST 5 DAYS FOR THE CFP FOR @commityourcode.bsky.social!!! If you have a great talk you want to submit, now is the time! Last year we had 8,100 attend online and almost 1,000 in person. Multiple watch parties for online and more! This year will be even better! sessionize.com/the-commit-y...

Are y'all ready for another cohort? 🤔👀

OUR NEW YORK CITY MEETUP WAS A HUGE SUCCESS! San Francisco and Bellevue, WA (Outside of Seattle) the team and I are coming there next on June 9th and the 11th! A Night of Enterprise AI! NYC was at capacity in a few days, space is EXTREMELY limited. RSVP⤵️

I don't think people truly understand what a BILLION dollars is. If you were paid $5,000 every single day starting on the day Christopher Columbus set sail for the Americas in 1492, and you saved every single penny, you still wouldn't be a billionaire today. You'd be short by about $25 million. ⤵️

I host a weekly software developer community call every Thursday Morning in my discord! If you are in tech, this is a perfect community for you! Come check out the call today! discord.gg/9skeTRryT

You can't build a great website and platform if you aren't willing to write the broken functions first.

I have done almost 800 1:1 mentoring calls, and thousands of other interactions over the years. With some folks, positive planning and guidance leads to the end goal. With some, anger and outrage puts a fire in their belly that make them persistent and consistent. ⤵️

Vercel hasn't posted this on Bluesky yet but they have a very significant security leak. Welp, there goes my Sunday. Damn it man. If you have anything hosted on Vercel, take action now.

New York!! It's been fun but time to head back home to Dallas. Next trip in two weeks to Anaheim! After that Sydney, Australia! Then San Francisco and Seattle. Going to be a busy couple months.

To everyone that came out tonight and online, Thank you. The meetup tonight was ABSOLUTELY incredible. From folks cheering to technical moments where people learned, thank you. Will have more photos coming out soon!

Attended A Night of Enterprise AI @atlassian.bsky.social NYC Learned about Forge, Rovo, & that best ideas dont fail on execution, they fail on capture from @bytesofbree.bsky.social, Reign Nelson, & @dthompsondev.bsky.social Met a lot of lovely new folks, familiar faces, & ate yummy pizza & soda~