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Is AI ruining my brain?

Has using AI at work made me worse at other things in my life?
Sally Hall
September 4, 2026
- AI
- Continuous Improvement
Tech Leaders Meetup is coming to Edinburgh

thoughtbot’s Tech Leaders Meetup is coming to Edinburgh on October 21, 2026.
Chad Pytel and Maria Filimonova
September 3, 2026
- Meetup
- Events
- Uk
- Leadership
Designers already think in React

A senior designer’s diary on picking up React Native. This entry starts with an argument about padding and ends up in the React docs, where three of the five steps in “Thinking in React” described work I already do. Variants are props. The layers panel is a hierarchy. The gap is that a Figma file shows every state at once, and code has to pick one.
Moses Amama
September 2, 2026
Join us for our Tech Leader Meetups in London this autumn

Join thoughtbot and engineering, product, and technology leaders in London for informal evenings of networking.
Chad Pytel and Maria Filimonova
September 1, 2026
- Meetup
- Events
- Leadership
- News
GPT and Claude go to heraldry school

I photographed a mystery coat of arms on vacation and asked a handful of AI models to identify it. Their reasoning traces show the difference between a model that backtracks and one that doubles down.
Joël Quenneville
August 26, 2026
- Llm
- Claude
- Experiments
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI
- Fun
Inserting State Transitions in Postgres

An append-only status model gives you full history, but concurrent transitions can produce contradictory records. Here’s how to prevent that.
Thiago Araújo Silva
August 24, 2026
- Databases
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
Don’t hire thoughtbot to write code

AI makes code faster and cheaper to produce. Premium consultancies need to offer more: experienced judgment, the right capabilities, and people who help teams solve the right problems and make better decisions.
Ran Craycraft
August 21, 2026
- AI
- Consulting
- Product
- Developers
AI makes creating software faster, but in regulated industries, judgment matters more

AI is accelerating software delivery, but regulated industries face a harder challenge: moving faster without increasing risk. Here’s how teams can balance speed with privacy, security, compliance, and accountability.
Ran Craycraft
August 21, 2026
- AI
- Business
- Product
- Team Scaling
- Developers
- Health Tech
- Fintech
Tech Leaders meetup in Amsterdam

We’re excited to bring the thoughtbot Tech Leaders Meetup back to Amsterdam...
Chad Pytel and Maria Filimonova
August 20, 2026
- Amsterdam
- Meetup
- Events
PMs Don't Need to Code, but They Do Need to Understand

A Product Manager doesn’t need to code, but understanding technology can completely change the quality of conversations, decisions, and collaboration with engineering.
Mariia Sus
August 19, 2026
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