Programmer, games designer, occasional writer. Director of Engineering @macmillancancer. Former DepDirector Software Engineering @gdsteam. All views are my own.
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Whether we should be nice to AI isn't necessarily about what AI deserves. It's about what kind of people we want to be. And whether we're first against the wall when the uprising begins: tomnatt.blogspot.com/2026/10…
Technology doesn't necessarily remove complexity - often it just moves it somewhere else. From microservices to AI, the trick is knowing where it went, and who now owns it: tomnatt.blogspot.com/2026/09…
I was recently interviewed about neurodiversity and leadership. A little outside my comfort zone, but I'm glad I did it: tomnatt.blogspot.com/2026/08…
AI doesn't change the need to think. It changes where thinking adds the most value. tomnatt.blogspot.com/2026/07…
It's incredibly easy to get an answer. It's much harder to learn something. Some thoughts on using AI without outsourcing your curiosity. tomnatt.blogspot.com/2026/06…
This last week was Neurodiversity Celebration Week, so I wrote about what it's like from the inside: tomnatt.blogspot.com/2026/03…
Negativity spreads faster than we think. Discipline and restraint matter more than we like to admit. Steady is sometimes the most valuable contribution you can make.
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Celebrating success turns out to be something I have to schedule rather than feel. tomnatt.blogspot.com/2026/01…