Chad Wathington

The biggest impediment to racial justice is this country is the denial of systemic and structural racism by a large portion of whites. Before Ferguson, it was somehow acceptable to say, “I don’t believe systemic or structural racism exists, yet I am not a racist.” 1/

@gsmiznith @zats Crazy sauce. Wow.

@zats @twchad

> The attacker got the npm token by injecting a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot read, interpreted as an instruction, and executed.

@gsmiznith @MartinShkreli @AnthropicAI Yeah, I’ve learned to use cursor + claude for very atomic level actions as a result. Too many “huh?” type moments.

almost lost $100 million because @AnthropicAI's Claude snuck in 'generate random data' as a fallback into my market maker code without telling me

Latest Thoughtworks Technology Radar is out - our regular survey of technologies that capture our attention in our client work. We found lots of AI-adjacent tools to be useful, but also that coding assistants often lead to problems thoughtworks.com/radar

FINAL § Alessio, Tom, and Shodhan complete their article on what they have learned from using GenAI with legacy systems. GenAI helps them build a capability map, identifies dead code, and has promise for better translations between platforms. #DiscoveringACapabilityMapOfASystem" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">martinfowler.com/articles/legac…

📚 New book alert! 🔥 💡 Discover the fascinating fusion of humanity and data from Thoughtworks’ Data Strategy and Governance Lead, @happyskykai, in his groundbreaking new book, 'Humanizing Data Strategy': ter.li/prwoy5

"Every interesting problem starts with 'it depends.'" Our Chief Scientist @martinfowler explains how to make better decisions about technology 🔽 Read the 30th volume of the Radar here: ter.li/njtvcv #TWTechRadar #TechTrends #TechReport

@MKBHD @watchUFAtv Can you have some of your team do content in your absence? Think they're great on waveform...

Alright some of you already know, some of you are new and didn't know: I've been playing ultimate frisbee for 17(!) years. It's somewhat hard to explain sometimes, but the Professional league (@watchUFAtv) packages the sport in a way that's easiest to share But this year is even more special/busy for me, a few months ago was invited to try out for Team USA (There's actually 3 teams, men's, women's and mixed). I've been trying out for these teams my whole career, and this year I made the team for USA Mixed! The World Championships are this September in Gold Coast, Australia Anyway, this past weekend was the team's first of several training camps. 3 day tournament in Medellín, Colombia competing together for the first time and the squad is SICK. On and off the field. Such a great group. Sooooo this year I'll be missing a few more embargoes/tech events than usual for training camps and ultimate frisbee and as far as I'm concerned it's totally worth it Very excited to represent the country at Worlds later this year, along with all the other pro games I'll be sharing here on social media 😎

My thoughts are with my colleagues (and others) in southern Brazil who have been hit with devastating floods theguardian.com/world/article/…

It's here! The 30th edition of Thoughtworks Technology Radar is live! 15 years, 30 editions – thanks for being part of the journey. Read now: ter.li/ccsvao

John Kordyback, a treasured colleague and friend, died last week, aged 64 martinfowler.com/articles/kordy…

NEW § Abi Noda and Tim Cochran explain that it's valuable to capture both attitudinal and behavioral qualitative metrics. These allow us to measure the otherwise unmeasurable, providing missing visibility and necessary context for quantitative data. #TheTwoTypesOfQualitativeMetrics" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">martinfowler.com/articles/measu…

💖 We’re thrilled to announce that Bahmni, the open source hospital information system we’ve nurtured for over a decade at Thoughtworks, won ‘Best Open Source Creation’ at the #UNDP Future of Government Awards. Learn more: futureofgovernment.com/en @UNDP @AWS #SocialChange

I wrote a few words to mark the publication of @unmeshjoshi's excellent book after a fruitful four-year journey martinfowler.com/books/patterns…

When it comes to #GenAI, generating ideas is not the difficult bit but choosing the right idea that will create real business value, shared @mikemasonca, our Chief AI Officer. Watch the full interview with @EdLudlow on Bloomberg @technology thght.works/3FOVqiv

@OpenAI. I’m an early Dall-E 2 user. (I have credits that are useless). Early ChatGPT user and a Plus customer. Yet, I always get new features last. What gives? Do you switch up the cohorts? Why should I pay to get things last consistently? #OpenAIDevDay

The UN says nearly seven million people are now internally displaced within the Democratic Republic of Congo due to escalating violence. According to the UN, the DRC is facing one of the world's biggest displacement and humanitarian crises. bbc.in/3FEvwha

@NateSilver538 Second order effects. He’s lost the grass roots organizers, particularly in the black community. You heard it here first: If he stays until the general, on Election Day, Democratic field operations will stink and journalists will waste a lot of words wondering why.

There's been no overall change in Biden’s approval rating since 10/7. (There has been a lot of the usual poll cherry-picking.) Biden’s policy is popular w/ parts of the D coalition & unpopular with others. Also, swing voters matter, too. Americans are pretty supportive of Israel.

Volume 29 of the Thoughtworks Technology Radar is out today - the latest installment of our regular sweep of what's interesting in our day-to-day software delivery thoughtworks.com/radar

How is code generation with GenAI different from more "traditional" code generators? The newest memo in Birgitta Böckeler's explorations of GenAI talks about abstraction levels in software engineering, and on which levels GenAI sits #memo-07" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">martinfowler.com/articles/explo…